The Illinois-Shaped Cornflake.
This work has something to do with idleness.
Every painter's biggest fear is to go blind. At least how I see it.
My mother told me many years ago that Dr. Kellogg advertised Cornflakes as a remedy to prevent boys from masturbating. Someone else believed that thorough masturbating causes blindness.
I had too keep my hands busy, avoiding my destiny, so I decided to paint a Cornflake.
This is where the idleness comes in: instead of bringing an original cornflake sample from home to the studio - I researched the Internet yet again.
On e-bay I came across this wonderfully Illinois-shaped Cornflake, which the painting references.
I decided to paint it much bigger than life, at least three or four times, since it now represented an entire American Federal State, which even used to be run by the 1997 – 2004 Senator Barack Hussein Obama II.
