Posts Tagged ‘plants’

Studio View: Enigromatic Avocado Tree

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Avocado 2

I can’t imagine not having plants sitting around the studio.  An artist friend of mine named Moses Hoskins gave me a tip on growing avocados a few years ago, and I started this one in a coffee can.  I’m going to have to transplant it again soon.  It’s sitting on my rolling palette-table, which is just a ready-made tabouret fashioned from an old crate I’d found on the street in Manhattan some 15 years ago.  I screwed some caster-wheels onto the bottom and store my oil mediums in it.  It’s dimensions are identical to the size of my 12″ x 15″ Enigromatic Paintings, one of which is mounted to the side in this photo.

A few years ago I saw an exhibit of Picasso paintings at a gallery on 57th street that included an old palette that the artist had sitting in his studio when he died.  I was surprised to see how similar it was to this little crate that I’d found, with an old ceramic plate on top with black paint dried onto it, a brush still stuck to the paint.  It was one of the most moving things I’d seen from Picasso:  it reminded me of some of his guitar constructions somehow.

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