Robert Rooney’s Silly Symphony 7 (Camel Cuts) 1988 appropriates a large section from the back of a 1960s Kellogg’s cereal box containing a segmented ‘Jumble Animal’, which was designed to be cut out and reassembled by children, like a jigsaw. In the 1960s, he made some of his most well-known paintings by arranging and repeating the shapes found on the back of Kellogg’s boxes. The later ‘Silly Symphonies’ paintings continue this investigation into the aesthetic potential of everyday items. Describing his use of found imagery, the artist said: ‘I have always preferred to work from secondary sources, particularly mass media ones, rather than paint or draw from the actual subject’. This painting highlights Rooney’s ability to locate the joy and absurdity present in some of the most common everyday images.