“Pea Soup and Pearls”

#08: Spencer, 2021

Acrylic on Paper, Spring 2022

The comfort of pea soup, paired with creme fraiche and mint, may ease the anxiety of one's hallucinatory breakdown during an oppressively traditional holiday dinner.  To add a texture to the dish, as well as a heightened sense of surreal tension, tear away at the opulent string of pearls around one's neck, an accessory wrought with toxic symbolism, and consume the lustrous gems with emotional, spiteful fervor.