A decade in the making, this painting by Duke Mitchell started life as a film still from Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66 (1998). Each component of the painting has it’s own backstory. It is therefore a collage of stories stitched together to form a single staged scene. A tattooed man sits naked speaking on the telephone surrounded by various possessions and a pile of empty beer bottles.

Wallpaper, oil, emulsion, paint pens, plastic, felt tip, chalk and wax on handmade canvas in painted frame, 230 x 150 cm