chess match

From dark beginnings this paintings arrived at a colorful conclusion. I began with a meditation on Duchamp's last years, where he eschewed painting for playing chess. As I continued painting the perspective changed from 3/4s over-head to full on single point perspective. I added a cat, under the table, from a photograph of a family pot luck dinner at my great grandfather Stallworth's farm ca 1955. Suddenly a bull appeared, and the scene became crowded with onlookers. Perhaps there's something Duchampian about it after all.