Ripley Whiteside
Pumpkin Blue China, 2016
Aquarelle / Watercolour
6 x 6 7/8 in
15.1 x 17.6 cm
15.1 x 17.6 cm
Series: Meaningful Drinks
© Ripley Whiteside
$ 275.00
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'.