Day 308: "My Kitchen Sink, Everyday", acrylic on unstretched canvas, 9x12"
The theme for November is interior spaces, as an ode to the season of hunkering down for the winter and enjoying the warmth and comfort of home. This month’s paintings will feature scenes, lived spaces from my own cozy apartment, such as a corner of my kitchen where my monstera plant lives next to the window, or my favorite couch in the living room in which I’ve taken many afternoon naps, or my Dutch oven on my stovetop. The paintings will feature interior scenes from other spaces as well. This is a painting of my kitchen sink on a daily basis. Perhaps, nothing has characterized my state of mind this year better for me than constantly having dishes in my sink. I was someone who could not go to bed at night without properly closing up the kitchen; that is, by leaving the kitchen sink clean and empty, loading up the dishwasher and switching it on, and wiping down the counters. And so having dirty dishes in my sink overnight is more indicative of my chaotic state of mind than anything else. The painting was done using acrylic on unstretched canvas with the edges taped off, leaving a white border. The canvas is an eco blend made of 50% hemp and 50% cotton and primed. It will be unframed, signed and dated on the back.
This is part of my year long project, "This sweet simple existence". During this year of living creatively, I will create small artworks everyday based around objects from my daily life, (mostly food, household items, perhaps the view from my window etc). thereby simply documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary joys of a simple life.
Day 308: "My Kitchen Sink, Everyday", acrylic on unstretched canvas, 9x12"
The theme for November is interior spaces, as an ode to the season of hunkering down for the winter and enjoying the warmth and comfort of home. This month’s paintings will feature scenes, lived spaces from my own cozy apartment, such as a corner of my kitchen where my monstera plant lives next to the window, or my favorite couch in the living room in which I’ve taken many afternoon naps, or my Dutch oven on my stovetop. The paintings will feature interior scenes from other spaces as well. This is a painting of my kitchen sink on a daily basis. Perhaps, nothing has characterized my state of mind this year better for me than constantly having dishes in my sink. I was someone who could not go to bed at night without properly closing up the kitchen; that is, by leaving the kitchen sink clean and empty, loading up the dishwasher and switching it on, and wiping down the counters. And so having dirty dishes in my sink overnight is more indicative of my chaotic state of mind than anything else. The painting was done using acrylic on unstretched canvas with the edges taped off, leaving a white border. The canvas is an eco blend made of 50% hemp and 50% cotton and primed. It will be unframed, signed and dated on the back.
This is part of my year long project, "This sweet simple existence". During this year of living creatively, I will create small artworks everyday based around objects from my daily life, (mostly food, household items, perhaps the view from my window etc). thereby simply documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary joys of a simple life.
