Ripley Whiteside
Coke, 2016
Aquarelle / Watercolour
8 x 5 1/2 in
20.3 x 14 cm
20.3 x 14 cm
Series: Meaningful Drinks
© Ripley Whiteside
The title 'Meaningful Drinks' was a tagline for a fancy juice brand, can't remember what the brand was called but I thought it was silly for juice to take itself...
The title 'Meaningful Drinks' was a tagline for a fancy juice brand, can't remember what the brand was called but I thought it was silly for juice to take itself so seriously. After the initial still-life I started to make tiny still lifes from my recycling bin, sort of a catalog of all the waste I was generating without thinking about it, sometimes juxtaposing trash with natural objects, many of which were drinks that marketed themselves as 'all natural'.