Probably the first question someone would ask of this piece is why would you paint gummy worms? Have you ever looked at any food and said “that just looks too good to eat!” Well that’s what I always said about gummy worms and various other jelly like candies that I have sampled over the years. Once more light comes into play here. The worms when light passes through them in a certain way become jewel like in appearance. No matter how simple something may seem there is always a certain amount of complexity about it. This premise can be proven by the simple act of trying to make a so-called realistic rendering of just about anything you can name.

    When I was a child one of my favourite pastimes was digging for treasure. My friends and I would dig up pieces of coloured glass shards from various bottles that had been discarded by lesser informed adults these were really sapphires rubies emeralds and lord knows what else! A child knows not the monetary value of a gem only that it looks beautiful though it may only be glass.