My first painting in what became the ‘Subrealism’ series. Started as reaction to a chat I had with Buster Stiggs about faux-collage in Auckland punk-pop band the Swingers’ promotional posters. One of their brilliant lyrical themes was New Zealandic ‘suburbia’ – I tried to take this further. Not overly successfully… the goldfish pet to symbolise monotony... as far as I got. The only clever bit I will admit is my sly discussion of: point, line, triangle; onto square and circle – as forms in the shapes of the images chosen. Which I later discovered in Herr Kant’s writings as; point, line surface and later still in Aristotle as; point, line, plane – those Greeks are always the first and best, at EVERYTHING anyone would want to know.
  As a random reflection on stoned afternoons watching black and white movies, didactic documentaries and nature programmes on the colour teevee.
  Not to mention the meaning of life.