Over the past several decades, Sanford has painted quite literally thousands of beer cans and bottles. He claims not only that he drinks almost nothing but beer (and coffee), and that he has drank each and every beer that he has painted. Reliable sources claim that he has arrangements with at least 2 breweries and one local bar that have granted the thirsty artist with a “lifetime supply” of his favorite beverage. Notably during June of 2017 the artist invited friends and neighbors to bring him beer and drink them with him. He displayed paintings of 99 of these beers in an exhibition at local Gitler & Gallery in an exhibition simply titled, “99 Bottles of Beer.” But Sanford’s interest in the Nature Morte genre sometimes reaches beyond beer cans and bottle. He seems to use the idiom as a means to explore the vice, self destructive behavior and mortality. In paintings were Sanford attempts to represent fictional drug addicts and degenerates, he uses still life arrangements to imagine and investigate lost various lost souls human failings. Examples of pictures include “Barrett Rude, Jr.”, “Mingus Rude” and “Perkus Tooth”, all characters from Jonathan Lethem novels, the author being Sanford’s favorite. Also pictured below, Sanford’s “John Self” still life, based on character from Martin Amis’ novel “Money.” In at least one case, “The Last Slice”, the artist appears to turn the spotlight, or the paint brush, on his own human weaknesses and gluttony.