Donald Gialanella - Metal Sculpture

During two years in Turkey I painted using acrylics that I mixed from powdered pigments combined with a polymer base, as no ready made tubes of paint were available.  This large composition was based on a small photograph I had taken years before in a dilapidated museum in Niagara Falls NY.  It shows a display case fallen into disrepair, full of dried up neglected specimens.  I painted them as such, with protruding ribs in stiff stilted postures.  The title is a parody of the classic painting term for an arrangement of objects, “Still life”.