"This painting comes out of some deep dark place in my mind....
I love animals dearly, but every once in a while one feels a certain desire to
be a bit fiendish, I guess one would say. Just a tiny bit, not in any way harmful.
Why is this man bribing this dog??? Well, sometimes it is necessary.
There are lots of sub-layers in this painting, that moved about in the unconcious
for a while, and wrestled about, until this image surfaced. At first there
was just the dog, and the bone dangling out from the side of the painting.
I felt that a good painting couldn't just have a bone dangling from
nowhere. I watched, until suddenly I saw that man sitting there,
so I painted him in, and it all felt right somehow."

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