Photo Booth, 30" x 24", oil on canvas, 1982. Artist's collection.

Here is a painting of two young gentlemen. The image is derived from a 1 1/2" wide strip of four photographs taken at a photo booth in a Walgreen's drug store at a local shopping mall. The crudely generalized and distorted rendering of the figures in this composition stems largely from the fact that the 1 1/2" wide black and white photo was transposed in scale to a 24" wide format by no proper mechanical means other than a superimposed 1/4" grid system.

The young gentleman on the right is the infectiously over-gifted Bret Ancel, aka, The Bearman, and I am the the guy on the left. The image is rendered in the "between frames" design which I conceived for the Mixing Mediums painting in the Early Works gallery. In the top frame we are "posing" to the best of our combined hysterical nature. A few seconds later in the bottom frame, disrobing seemed to be the order of the moment.

The crude nature of the rendering in this painting, and the hysteria and hilarity of the scene, both conspire to create a real slice of my life at this time. What fun it was to be so spontaneous and carefree, and then make paintings about it.