For the first time I wanted to challenge myself by painting a big shiny piece of machinery and make the object the star. I searched online of all kinds of machinery with no success. I then switched to motor. This is the image that captured my attention. Adding the rooster as the living creature compositionally was important and the razor gave the right amount of dynamic tension. The background pattern of molecules seem to show us that we are all, whether living or not, part of the stuff of the Universe.