About the Design
Ian Green:  "The Stegosaurus, in its uphill morning crawl, clanks a garbage-canned footstep in time with the machine music of garbage truck mastications. Beyond the humming sulphur streetlights, a sliver of waning moon touches softly upon the rooftops and hill while the blue light of morning spreads across the sky and down the slopes of South Side.

"A line from Tom Waits kept playing in my head as I worked on this..."the streets are turning blue, the dogs are barking and the night is gone." It's that breath of morning air and the promise of another day that I want people to feel. That it's all happening on the surface of an animal millions of years extinct only adds to the sense of gratitude I feel in witnessing the dawn."

Green used oil-based enamel over primer for the painting and a slightly bashed garbage can for the foreleg.