As with many of my pieces, for this one, I just got a silly idea and ran with it. Loosely based on the concept of soup and crackers, this piece is one part late-night infomercial, one part Andy Warhol, and two parts Garbage Pail Kids. Like many of my generation, the lyrics of "Animal Crackers In My Soup" were seared into my brain for life by late-night Shirley Temple "Little Darling Collection" infomercials. As I feverishly plotted the idea, the rest of the lyrics kept playing in my mind, "loop-the-loop," and thus the Loops Bröther cat arrived in the scene, silently judging in the background. The piece is completed on watercolor paper mounted to a wood panel, and was constructed in layers during the initial quarantine in spring of 2020.