The outsize photorealist paintings are based on stills from reality TV scenes – specifically, scenes in which people have been driven to weep (it is of course taken as a given that all reality TV shares the common goal of forcing the participants to break down and weep, sooner or later).
The banality (not to say sordidness) of the artist's chosen subject is doubly well-realized by the washed-out color palette he correctly selected (to indicate the emptiness of these poorly-staged emotions) and by the bleaching effect of the gruesome strip-lighting.
Thus, the question asked here yesterday about the usefulness of such a cold, killing light-source has now been amply answered.
