Still Life Without Rubber Glove

A still life is an image of primarily small inanimate objects that can be moved around easily and typically consists of food items, flowers, household objects, etc.  By this definition, some  of my work might be considered still life. However, many of my images include a hand with a rubber glove on it interacting with the still life in some way. The inclusion of a hand potentially helps the image resist categorization as a still life. This image has a hand in it as well, but it is not wearing a rubber glove, and it is instead submerged into the still life objects. Furthermore, this image contains subject matter (a hand holding a raw egg) that is possibly off putting.  The title here has the same effect as the phase, “don’t think of an elephant”.  Of course, as soon as you say it, you are thinking of an elephant. In this case, the image may as well have a rubber glove in it.  In fact, the viewer might even wish that it did after seeing the title.  That’s my goal anyway.
 
Many of the themes of play, humor, obsessive compulsive triggers, etc. continue in this work.  Like most of the rubber glove images it plays with that boundary between what something means at any given moment in time vs what it could mean if we allow our ideas to intermingle or go astray.  What does the viewer want this image to mean?  Are they concerned with what the artist intended?  Are they trying to keep it from meaning something in particular?  I think there is something sublime when meaning rests just out of reach because that’s where it sits most comfortably. I suspect I am not the only artist who feels this way. 
 
One last point.  In virtually all of my work I am the only human being in the image.  It’s been decades since someone else was included. However, since this image includes a hand without a rubber glove on it…it seemed important that it be someone else’s hand.