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Reflections
Explorations of how art threads through the spaces and gestures of daily life.


The Strawberry Choice: A Manifesto
A reflection on the strawberry as symbol, motif, and fruit, exploring its art-historical presence, cultural meanings, and what it reveals about Echoes of the Canvas’s approach to visual culture.
Jan 304 min read


When Life Stands Still: on Art and Language
It struck me one day. In French, we call a still life a nature morte , which translates literally 'dead nature'. To me, the words that I have spoken since childhood carry this brutal finality, the uncomfortable idea of decay and extinction. In English, still life sounds gentler and suspended. Same paintings, two very different sensations. Sarah Miriam Peale, Still Life with Watermelon , 1822, oil on panel, 46.4 x 67 cm. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Italian, Spanish,
Nov 24, 20252 min read


Tables as Still Life: Craft, Context, and the Art of Looking
At craft markets and fairs, rows of tables stretch like a succession of small stages. Each one is curated by a maker who orchestrates a dialogue between the objects and the passing visitor, and between the objects themselves too. These displays do their job in drawing their audience, yet they are rarely seen for what they are. For in their careful compositions, they actually echo a fine art tradition: the still life . When I walked among the stalls at Potfest Scotland last
Nov 5, 20252 min read
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