August 13, 2016 | Author: Mircea Popescu

The title means "study". Because it is.

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Street corner with fire pit, motorcycle and hanging dead baby.

What's that, you say ? Shall we take a closer look, you ask ? Sure thing!

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What now ?

Forward, I say, there's also a car, parked since at least 1999 on that very same street corner. Like so :

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Time to move on, to the interiors of this very nice cafe where I've had splendid coffee, cheesecake, biscuits, milkshakes and so on and so forth. First, the picture :

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Second, the painting :

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Observe the badly drawn hand ; the hair strand that so nicely supported and elevated the otherwise common mouth turned into a piece that is there for purely ritualistic reasons - "it has to be" - rather than its original function ; or for that matter the metamorphosis of the very mouth in question from merely unfortunate to outright abominable.

Art imitates technology, or how did it go.