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the very few people who think about painting and drawing. N O f. My objective is to investigate the relationships between figurative form in general and photographic images, and to consider how they may relate to traditional values in painting, as well as to my personal ideas about painting. Like many painters who are working with one kind of figurative image or another I find myself saturated with images and objects produced through photographic media, whether they be the cinema, newsphotos, television, magazine, or advertising and sales materials of one kind or another. The circulation of photographic representations of people, places, and events is so continuous and pervasive that photography as the media that surrounds us, "has become i a part of our pyschological habits of vision". Our attitudes toward ideas and the formulation of ideas, like most things, undergo changes, modifications, an