Still Life with Key Limes and Key Lime Pie M&M’s (March)

St. Patrick’s Day was a holiday the artist’s late grandmother used to celebrate with the entire family. She always decorated the house and served corned beef, cabbage, and key lime pie. Her glassware appears in almost every single painting in the series. Here it holds some key lime pie flavored M&M’s. While the vaccine rollout had been stellar that month, the ever-present threat from the virus was still looming over the populace. The B.1.1.7 was on the rise in the US and about to take over. The month marked the one year anniversary of the contagion being labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and the artist reused some of the items from his first still life in this piece to mark the passage of the year. The still life is set with a backdrop of Girl in an Orchard (Under the Apple Blossom) by Maria Dorothy Webb.