I made this image my profile picture on facebook and actually got a lot of compliments on it. Its funny. I will try almost anything I think of to make an image including printing a picture out on a standard office printer on cheap paper and then photograph it again held up to an incandescent light without changing the auto white balance--just to see what it does. And this was the result. I had made a similar image on film that I put in a show a few years ago and I called it 'goat'. I thought the title was pretty telling because of the use of the word goat and its many meanings in conjunction with the image that resembled a stuffed pig ready to be feasted upon. That image hangs, I think anyway, in my dear friend Chuck McCleary's house. This is a variation and sometimes I feel like this stuffed pig or goat...not in as bad a way as it might seem. I don't always understand the world around me--but I'm confident that even though I might be a small part of society--I do have a voice---and sometimes that voice says 'no matter what you throw on me...you can't take away my worth.' This is important to note---I talk about this all the time when I talk about the idea of bosses and workers. To me-- a boss has the job to do the work that allows me to use my talents to do my work. They are not superiors--they equally have a task to do to make sure our jobs a functioning at capacity. If bosses understand this--productivity soars and the workers are happy. Its funny--but that is really what the piece 'goat' is about. And yes there are a lot of times I wish that apple was in my mouth preventing me from using my voice--because not everyone agrees with what I have to say and it does get me into some trouble with people who think they are superiorPhotograph of a print of a photograph by Richard Sayer.