Spies Everywhere!

This painting was inspired partly from my love of film-noir, the spies and other memorable characters from movies such as 'Casablanca' and "Maltese Falcon', the exotic locales of the ‘orientalism’ art movement, and a good deal of humor! There is a story here, a mystery to be unraveled, a stuffed mongoose. The sign might give us some clues, it reads in Moroccan- Islamic,... ‘Spy Convention’.