Penny’s Grand Vision: A Creation Story consists of approximately twenty two paintings revolving around the character of Miss Penny Peacock and her twin obsessions: gaining access to the power of creation , and rearranging still life paintings. Penny was traumatized when still a chick when her mother took her to see an exhibition of 17th century Dutch still life painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At first glance, Penny found the paintings beautiful and compelling, but when she looked more closely she saw not just an array of sumptuous food and drink, but also the dead and rotting bodies of her relatives. As she grew up, she decided that she would help to revolutionize the still life, to rearrange its elements in a more pleasing manner.

To achieve this end, Penny enlists the help of a group of rooster henchmen, including the story’s imprisoned narrator, Rough Randy. Penny and her cohorts are opposed in their campaign of aesthetic revisionism by a mysterious group of militant reactionaries (rumored to be “curatorial types”) known as the T.R.A., which stands for Twisted Ridiculous Art, as well as being the word “art” backwards.

The Paintings are meant to encourage viewers to indulge their own conclusions regarding Penny’s Grand Vision: A Creation Story, this painting cycle is intended as both parable for the state of the visual arts in the postmodern era, and a petition for greater leeway in the individual interpretation of works of art.