Snapshot 1995
Acrylic on canvas, pine and birch frame 75x90”

This piece is one of my favorites of all time.   It's a scene we saw all too often while we were living in New Zealand, a harrier standing greedy guard over faceless road kill.   The frame's black corners are meant to evoke photo mounts, working with the title of this piece to give it the feeling of a tourist's photo.

I also enjoy this piece for an interpretation offered by a woman who saw it in N.Z.; she read the plant in the left foreground as a treble clef (from musical notation) and the fiddlehead fern in the right foreground as a bass clef, making this painting symbolic of the "music of the highways" of New Zealand.   None of this was my intention and I couldn't be happier that some thoughtful viewer brought their own interpretation to my work.