This rather surreal scene features a large giraffe in front of his companion, a zebra, who is just exiting the forest. Behind them are a woman and a baby.

The theme of a forest, or as I usually think of it, a jungle, is one that appears in a number of my paintings, most of them done after 9/11. The jungle, unfortunately, seems an appropriate image for the more dangerous times we live in, since the murkiness of the jungle and the animals that live there create a heightened sense of danger.

Even so, this particular use of a jungle, has a more comic edge to it. Neither of the animals, the giraffe or the zebra, have much danger associated with them; in fact, they don't even look that realistic since they were painted from African carvings that I have at home.

"Giraffe" also shows another characteristic of my work, namely, using figures of various sizes that don't always seem appropriate. Obviously I'm really not trying to create a realistic scene so appropriate size is not that important to me. The different size figures often create a more interesting image.

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