I enjoy this 'fence' composition - it is very strong and it is possible to hang so much on it. Also, I had just found the livestock truck at the Marrabel Rodeo and I was busting to paint it, with its sold rectangular shape counterbalanced over the wheel, topped by the linear perspective of the steel cage. But I immediately encountered problems. Using the typical bog-standard, and otherwise perfect  iron oxide red of the original truck the fence got lost in front of it and I needed something in the truck but standard livestock were too short to be seen.

Then a neighbour, Graeme, invited us round to photograph his camels and I met Regal, who has appeared frequently ever since. (I wanted to photograph him spitting and Graeme did everything, including pretending to inoculate him, but would he spit? He would not!!) To balance the weight of the truck I decided on the blank purposelessness of joggers, so my husband dutifully jogged backwards and forwards across the paddock but I changed his hair and left out his moustache.

The word is the end of a real name in the phone book.

I entered this painting for the Sulman 'genre' painting prize, but it wasn't hung.

** There are more notes on the truck on the 'Trucks' Page, on the fence on the 'Compare Fences' Page and on the joggers on the 'Compare Joggers' Page.