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Self taught oil painter here. I’m working on a series of small paintings — each one a single food object from a horror movie, chosen because it carries the whole story of the film.
This one is for Midsommar.
Still shaped like what it was. Still recognizable. Yes technically more sugar at this point — but would you eat it? That’s Midsommar. Sweet on paper. Something you’d back away from slowly in reality.
These are small paintings — intimate scale. Something you have to lean in to really see. Would love feedback from other painters on the execution, still very much learning.

I’m an oil painter working on a series called Last Supper — small paintings of single food objects from horror movies and murder films. Each one is chosen because it carries the whole story of the film in one object.
For Midsommar I painted a rotten banana.
Something that was once bright yellow and sweet — now completely black. Still shaped like what it was. Still recognizable. But everything good rotted out of it.
That felt exactly right for this film. The shape of something beautiful with nothing left inside. Dani’s relationship. The commune’s promise of belonging. The whole sun-drenched gorgeous surface of it.
I came to painting after years as a labor and delivery nurse — I needed somewhere to put the weight of things. Midsommar is one of those films that gave me a lot to carry.
This is painting 1 of 10 in the Last Supper series. Happy to answer any questions about the painting or the film — this one I could talk about forever.