"Rapunzel", 2001

The idea for the joke here came while I was...well, never mind. The tower is a detail traced from a photograph of some castle, filled in and extended. The sky and trees come from photographs from Shelley Lake in Raleigh, North Carolina. The green eave over the tower window is supposed to represent patinated copper. The color was taken from a highlight on the head of a mallard duck, which I also photographed at Shelley Lake.