Breakfast in America
oil on canvas, 120×120 in. (destroyed)
After the Supertramp album of the same name, original cover design by Mike Doud.
This early experiment in the Dancing with Architecture series was rendered and documented, but destroyed. It was felt that the abstraction of figurative, narrative forms didn’t go far enough away from the source material, nor did it improve upon those sources by re-setting the perspective. Ultimately the decision was made to destroy it and leave the option open down the road to return to the subject.
The Lyric series and the piece Take It On the Run captured the essence much more succinctly.