Revisiting an older still-life —with an additional element + reduced overall measurements

Might this qualify as Pop Art?

“A patient’s muddled perspective of Renfrew shaded by bewilderment, resentment, and the passage of six years” (spring of 2010 and 2025)

A rather crude attempt at trompe l'oeil, this older “silver platter still-life” I decided to revisit after it was returned from a friend’s restaurant in Tenant's Harbor this spring, where it had been on display for eagle-eyed patrons.  An acrylic painting of many thinly applied layers —note the somewhat warty, plastered texture— it’s a project I’d yet to find satisfaction with until I finally took the leap and cropped it in size from the rectangular 16 inch x 12 inch to align with the reduced dimensions of a 10 inch square black mounted canvas that it was amateurishly hot-glued to.  At any rate, the central tray of sweet American junk food including Kellogg Pop Tarts and various Hostess snack cakes has been updated with the addition of a melted popsicle in our nation’s colors, rendered this weekend as an ode to the sloppy, reckless handling of our imperfect democracy.