The Carpenter/Rural Gothic style house that Grant Wood used for his famous painting.
One phenomenon I’ve noticed in learning how to make art is how familiar you become with a thing, or a person, an emotion, a message, an event, or a place, when you’re completely focused and zoomed in on recreating or reinterpreting it in your own work.
Like the gray clay plate I’ve drawn and painted for different still-lifes in different studios, I feel like I know this house on an intimate level. I can picture the kitchen and the way it smells more easily than I can remember the avocado fridge of my childhood home.
Along with this sensation, you get the “hanging out with these old farts and their pitchforks is getting old.” I’m eyeing the next blank, empty canvas like a 45-year-old married guy with a wife who put on a couple hundred pounds and never puts out.