During the ‘Dutch Golden Age’ an enthusiasm for still life painting emerged as a new middle class with expendable money bought these paintings to serve as decoration and reminders of the transience of life.  My newest work, although inspired from the Dutch genre paintings, investigates the still life in our intransient contemporary culture.  If a culture is to be defined by the objects it produces then we are a plastic nation, both physically and psychologically. The objects in the pieces, though not the objects of daily life, are chosen for their kitschy characteristics and speak to the absurdity and wonder of our plastic lifestyle. The Protestant moralistic message of the Dutch painters has been replaced by the plasticized fantasy of perfection and want, known as the American Dream.