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Completed 10/14/2023
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 14in x 11in
I was looking at still-lives of old masters. Usually, still lives that included food (usually fruit) is a symbol of wealth. Nowadays, eating, say, a dragonfruit in the US is unremarkable. I arranged this still-life of objects I could only get because of fast inter-global trade. Texture is always related to the 'freshness' of ingredients. Both of the squid and pepper's textures are 'smooth', yet so fundamentally different. I used watercolor to challenge myself to describe their differing textures