The Bull is out and my Foot is in my Mouth ( are we Staying or are we Leaving )? by Theresa Chromati is a mixed media art work on a six-foot by four-foot canvas. It is presented in portrait orientation, meaning that the shorter side runs parallel to the floor when on display in a gallery. Chromati uses acrylic paint, gouache, which is a type of paint similar to water color, and glitter. The artwork is densely packed with variations of color. These colors create a circular composition of one, or possibly more, abstracted figures. The central figure has an arm on the viewer’s right outstretched towards the top center of the canvas as if rejoicing or dancing. Their fingers are thin and resemble the tentacles of a jellyfish. The arm is pink with light blue and grey on the forearm along with a small red dot at the elbow. At the base of the arm, it changes to dark blue. On the left, the arm is also blue at its base; however, it has swirling stripes of light blue and a portion painted in dark red, also at the elbow. It turns beige at the forearm and continues in this way toward the fingers, which are also thin and tentacle like. The figure has six fingers in its left hand and is touching their left buttock. The buttock is purple on the left, and a mixture of blue, light blue, and purple on the right. Between the left and right buttocks is a pink X shape with four red dots at each end. The figure’s left leg is blue, light blue, and green with pink at its base. The right leg is light blue, blue, and red with small drips of red extending from the knee going down towards the bottom of the canvas. The right foot has four toes and a distorted heel. Going back towards the top of the canvas, the head of the figure is heavily abstracted and has an oblong shape, meaning it is longer than it is wider. The face is made of swirls of blue, light blue, light green, pink, and red. The nose is long and thin and extends outward like the noses of Harlequin or Pinocchio. The nose is grey, white, and black. Underneath the nose there are three red spheres, two on top of the third, that resemble puckered lips. The neck is brown, green, blue, and red. Extending upwards from the neck are two horn-like shapes made of gold glitter. The torso of the figure is made of bulbous shapes of various colors. Green, brown, dark and light blue, pink, yellow, and a spot of black. On the left extending from the torso there is an eye shape made of yellow, black, light and dark blue, and white. The pose of the figure gives the impression of someone in the middle of dancing or celebrating. Jutting out from either side of the figure are two legs that are bent at the knee and appear to belong to another figure that is hidden behind the central, bulbous figure, but are painted in such a way that they could also belong to the same multi-colored figure described. The legs are two different shades of yellow.  Both legs are painted with a repeating pattern of small circles that echo the circular shape of colors behind the figure. The brush strokes that create these small circles are thick and appear to lift off the canvas, creating both a sense of movement and a layer of undulating texture. Behind the central figure there is an almost complete spiral made of white, grey, red, and black tones that encircles the figure. The circular shape is thicker on the bottom and thinner on the sides. The spiral hooks in an upside-down letter “U” shape on the right side of the canvas, and is met with a strip of pink on the right lower third of the canvas. On the right of the figure, in between its head and outstretched arm, there is a shape made of blue and silver glitter, and turquoise paint that resembles an eye. Underneath this eye, there is a red orifice that leads to a shape that resembles a leg and two feet. They are painted with red glitter, projecting behind and in between the legs of the central figure. The swirling background of colors along with the abstracted figure give the overall impression of a lively and psychedelic scene.