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"I did a series of small paintings based on several different older paintings including a couple from the Walker gallery - Ships on the Mersey and Molly Long Legs. I call them Lilliput paintings because I distorted everything to fit into a small space. With the portraits by Velazquez and Gainsborough I took these large grand scale kind of propaganda portraits and squish them into a small space. I wanted them to look as if viewing the world through a souvenir snow globe with my own take on it. It was my first pass at appropriating the past for my own purposes. In creating this series I may have seen Thomas Rowlandson's 'A Lilliputian Vauxhall, Grotesque borders for rooms & Halls' 1800 -The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 59.533.1276" - Christian Furr"

This work is based on Sir Benjamin Truman by Thomas Gainsborough (1770-1774) - Tate