The long title is 'Hanging out in coffee shops drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes doesn't make you a writer nor a poet, nor does it make you look cool'. I did this as an homage to the surreal images of Robert Williams. We had to do a painting in the style of an artist we admired for one of my painting classes. I love Williams' images of demented tooth fairies, and other odd assortments of characters he does. His work is filled with the psychedelic wanderings of a mad genius. His paintings have three titles: short title, long title and paragraph descriptive title. I really love his stuff.

• 34in X 26in
• oil on canvas
• 1996