"timeless piece" in dealing with understanding renderings, it is best, like in literature, to give examples... while most of my figure works are yet to be rendered, there are, however, a number of examples to cover the other aspects... to begin with, i suppose it is instructive to look at the mundane, the outrightly cliche ridden... the first question that would be asked then is - if knowing these were mundane, why bother doing them? all i can say is that while i knew they were cliche ridden, i still found them to be of interest because the end results were MY interpretations of the cliches... they were the 'ordinary', as seen thru MY sense of life, MY understanding of metaphoric relationships... some, like 'timeless piece', is more of an exercise in technique, my attempt at a trompe l'oeil - and the only real thing going for it is the brightness of the leather fob, and the bright round metal case... nothing fancy, just plain and durable - which elevates the blank face to something more, a statement of solidity, of the positive, of the enduring, a far cry from the usual presentations which tend to laud emptiness, banality, and superficiality...