Two oil paintings that are related . . .

my breakthrough oil painting (on the left) I painted in November of 2010, when I pushed the envelope from realism to abstraction. The title of "Heliopsis Collapsing into the Tomato Plants" indicates how i thought I was painting from my photo source of my garden, but the source photo was ignored, and I instead, painted the painting self-referentially . . . the painting only referred to itself