I'm interested in the ways background, foreground, and central objects can fuse in a still life, and this piece is one more exploration of that. Drapery - even complicated drapery - is by no means unusual in still life, but the complexity of the design of this cloth certainly goes beyond what is normally seen in this kind of painting. It's no exaggeration to say that I spent at least 75% of the time painting just the background cloth.