At the 'Monkey House' we have a little Crane Machine that we sometimes play with and in it we have little toys and a bottle of Jagermeister (which is to heavy for the Crane to lift). Some of the toys are the cheap 'dollar store' rubber bugs.

I wanted to make a series of paintings with simple shapes and flat metallic backgrounds, and the rubber bugs just seemed fun for the series.

I think that I might do more in the future I still have a bunch of rubber bugs to choose from.