Description
Sanctuary Kitchen signed print, edition of 35. Image is 11 x 14″
Detail of print
11 x 14″ signed & numbered print of original oil painting. Edition of 35, 8 available. The original 49 x 62″ oil painting is also available, at $3500, contact me and I’ll post it here.
Sanctuary Kitchen is an attempt to convey the magic of the world of people who choose to cook for others, the body & soul nourishment of lovingly prepared food.
Concurrent with a full time career as an artist, I’ve been closely connected to restaurant and food pantry kitchens in my work as an organic farmer. The work that people do to prepare food for others is done with a devotion and ritual that is nothing short of sacred.
I am always in awe watching them. And boggled by the endurance required to stand for many hours at a time, in high heat and high gear, meticulously repeating the same fussy tasks dozens or hundreds of times a day. All to prepare a multisensory experience that will be demolished within minutes, very often going largely unappreciated as well.
It’s like a microcosm of all of life — working so hard for a brief moment of individual fruition, and simultaneously for the vast purpose of sustaining Life itself, beyond the present act and regardless of appreciation.
