Metaphysical Still-Life is a 40 × 30 inch acrylic-and-tempera painting on art cardboard, unframed. The background is a dark night landscape: deep blues at the top, then a smoky band of violet and red, like storm light far away. In front sits a green box-table with a yellow top, pushed close to the viewer.
On that tabletop, simple shapes become characters. A tall red pyramid, a sharp yellow wedge, a green translucent pyramid, and a white pyramid streaked with red (and torn open to a dark hollow) stand among scattered fruit-like spheres and a cluster of purple grapes. At the back-right, a small bright-eyed animal figure stands upright, blue-striped with orange legs.
The table has a face: two large eyes and a smaller central eye painted across its front, with thin black lines like lashes. That single move makes the scene feel watched, not merely arranged.
The paint surface carries evidence of working and reworking—stained areas, rubbed sections, and fresh color laid over older tones. It keeps the image alive without turning it messy. This is a still life built like a set: landscape behind, objects in front, and an uneasy feeling that the props are looking back.
