Still Life With Bananas

One of Grandma's Favourite foods was Bananas.  

Sometimes it seemed to be all she ate.

I decided to paint a blown up copy of one of the Still Life photos she once had in a brown oval frame.

The main focus of the image for me, was the Banana.  

...and then there was the Oval Frame.

I wanted to re-create the frame as being lustrous along with a duality of rust forming.

I could have made the frame perfect;

but its not about perfection.

Family isn't perfect.

I'd been contemplating making a metal bowl for bananas.

Suggesting people "please eat one!" ..before they rot.

Then, I began to explore the idea of Metal Bananas.

The same metal as the frame.

My first idea of bananas hanging from the frame was silly. Nonsensical.

So I bunched them together.

They weren't to sit in a bowl and bruise.

They were meant to sit in a banana hanger.

So I began to forge an ornate one.

It was meant to be more than a banana holder; it was to honour the bananas.

After a long day of hammering and playing; experimenting.. 

I had been watching a weak spot and being careful about it.

When....I broke the hanger!

It split in half.

I wanted to give up, but decided instead of making an entire new one,

I should weld this one back together.

It sits rather nicely now. 

I prefer it.

In the end: 

It's Still Life With Bananas