I saw this at the John Moores Painting Prize 2012 and I like it a lot. I like working with found objects, and I like the contrast between the delicate work and the trash it is painted on. The title seems to be a reference to an advertising campaign of Coca-Cola's which was fairly annoying and unrealistically perky and cheery, and of course had nothing to do with the product and was an instance of a giant corporation attempting to seem cute and friendly. This piece creates a visual of all that being stomped on.
I seem to be building up a theme of attacking false perkiness with cynicism. Maybe there's too much fake smiling going on, or maybe I'm devolving into Holden Caulfield. It's like I'm eleven again.
