Last suppers

The subject of a death row inmate's last meal has been dealt with by a number of artists. Julie Green's Delft blue ceramic take on the idea, spotlighted in this week's New York Times, caught my eye...

The last meal served to John Wayne Gacy, as imaged in an essay in the Mail Online

I think part of what interests me about this work its potential to revitalize the idea of the still life in some way...it still contains the moralizing overtones of traditional Dutch still life painting, but with a decidedly modern, documentary spin...more on that later (perhaps).