kesem, 2026 · digital work
There is a plate in every kitchen that lives slightly wrong, tilted against the backsplash, never quite stacked. Nobody chose that spot for it. It just arrived there one Tuesday and stayed. I am not sure if this image is finished or if I am still looking for what a plate actually is when nobody is serving anything. Both feel true.
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kesem, 2026 · digital work
A jar with nothing in it is still doing something. Holding light, holding the shadow of its own rim, holding the particular silence of a surface that's been handled so many times the glaze has worn soft at the lip. I don't know yet if this is my style or just a direction I'm walking toward. But I kept coming back to the empty jar, which is probably its own kind of answer.
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kesem, 2026 · digital work
There is a bowl on my shelf that has been empty for eleven days. Not forgotten, waiting. I keep looking at it and thinking: the emptiness is the point. I made this piece while trying to figure out if I can paint longing without making it sad. I don't know yet if I succeeded. That uncertainty is also in the image, if you look at the shadow.
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kesem, 2026 · digital work
There is always one spoon that never makes it back to the drawer. It lives on the counter, slightly sticky, slightly loyal. I made this because nobody has ever painted the spoon that stayed, only the ones arranged in a still life, perfect and untouched. This might not be the style I'll keep. But this spoon deserved a wall before I figure that out.
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kesem, 2026 · digital work
Every morning this mug gets used and not looked at. That bothered me. I put it on a white field, gave it too much room, and let something small and wrong appear at the rim, a tiny shadow that doesn't belong to any light source in the scene. I don't know yet if this is my style or just the beginning of looking for it. Either way, the mug deserved a wall.
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