This is a large acrylic on linen work that absorbed me for several months until all the elements I wished to arrange made it the visually intense painting I have done to date, I believe. I am totally captivated by bananas and have the privilege of watching them grow from the flowering stage. It is impossible for me to let them go as subjects. Within days, their weighted mass droops from the central stalk and with geometical precision, each row expands to expose rows of the beautiful baby fruit, encased in a magenta sheath. A very powerful visual expose.