So here's how the this got started. I was doing standard still-life sizes for a while, 18 x 24, 24 x 48 etc. I was bored after two. I liked painting people and being able to talk to them and find out who they were. Still Lifes had no personality right? Why not? I have some experience in animation and I remembered how in the old Warner Bros. Cartoons the Coyote and Dog would stop, mid-action, when the whistle blew at 5pm, punch out, and say goodnight to each other. I thought, "what if I treated the objects in the still-life like actors on the stage?" They would be the cast of the painting, rather than just boring fruit.

What was going on in this painting was that the painting itself was already over and the cast is lined up to take a bow. They are the cast in my play.....