Petit Nature Morte (bunnies)

Mitchell has used the cliché and the trite as subject matter for many years, employing the use of butterflies and flowers.  Other inspirations include his “love of the decorative impulse; the subtle horror of the innocuous; the ecstasy and terror of reproduction and multiples; the common appeal of the flower and its dumbfounding abstracted for both embraceable and monstrous-like excessiveness.” –Artist statement