Re-Inventions

One day Eoghan brought home a reproduction of an undistinguished image that was headed for the dump, but it was framed nicely, so he thought his father might make use of the frame.

O'Donoghue/Ross took a fancy to the image and decided to 're-invent' it in his own style, painting over it in his playful manner and creating another of his surreal worlds.  The family were sent scouring the thrift shops for more nascent re-inventions, and another series was begun.  Rather than the way the Chapman brothers painted over original etchings of Goya's Horrors of War, which he felt was a desecration, he 'improved' the reproductions, though he did include several reproductions of famous masters' images.