This painting is an oil on canvas. It is not dated nor signed but was done around 1976. I cant really explain it as to what the different items within it mean. At the time they had some meaning, otherwise I would not have used them. As I've explained to students, you have item A and then you have item B and when you paint the two together you have an entirely new item...item AB which has a new identity. This was my simple definition of surrealism. The Leaf is similar to a series of detailed works I did in the late 70s based on my painting of the Temptation of St. Anthony. That painting was a large, detailed , and visually complicated surreal image that I sometimes referred to as the Burning of Spokane, a factitious event.  It was so involved that it became the culmination of the detailed surreal direction I was on. After this work I decided to paint landscapes...a complete change of artistic direction and looked at new heroes like the Group of Seven (Canadian). I have since found that landscape is my forte and have continued it to this day.