Is you work - “self reflexive painting’? Or ‘Meta’ painting? Study - Las Meninas, by Diego Velázquez, and read Michel Foucault’s essay on the painting. The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock/ Victor Stoichita. The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting https://webspace.yale.edu/wood/reviewofstoichita.htm Research the work of Andrew Grassie and study his statement on his painting at this link; http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/re