Thursday, March 3, 2011

Hamlet and the Remains of the Day

*sold*
Thanksgiving was over and all that was left of the spiral-cut ham was the bone and the memory.  I thought I'd do a portrait of the remains after I was done with the dishes.  My family didn't understand.  To them, it was a piece of garbage.  To my dog, it was a mouthwatering temptation.  To me, it was a sculpture, a monument, a work of art! 
My hands were washing dishes but my mind was combining cadmium red and terra rosa, with maybe a drop of mauve blue shade... 
Over the days that it took to paint, the countenance of the ham bone changed; it seemed to get thinner and darker.  Hamlet, on the other hand, maintained the exact same expression during the vigil, never even blinking.

4 comments:

  1. ...in the "wake" of the massacre :-/

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  2. Hahahaha! Maybe he was hoping that if he sat as still as possible, he would not be noticed and escape the chopping block!

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  3. Hahaha! "Alas, poor Yorick... but better he than I!"

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