On Sunday I was back on this painting I have going from a 1984 ad for Merit cigarettes I found in an old Playboy magazine. The painting has always been a mess and it still is, but it's a little bit more accurate of a mess now! If I were more of a conceptual artist, I'd say there's some irony in this image given the current state of the economy... in 1984, America was the big super tanker and China was the little junk, now I think it's more the other way around! oil on canvas, 40 by 60 (previous post)