TLDR: Auction happening for 2 paintings from this series, details dropping tomorrow.

“I don’t need any brushes, I won’t be painting”

I was shopping for supplies in a dark stone basement turned art store. It was 2009 and I was at a residency in a small medieval village in Umbria. My mission was to learn how to draw from observation. I wanted to get better at sketching out my ideas for sculptures and my installations.

I specifically did NOT want to paint. I intuitively knew painting was a black box that once I entered I’d be in forever and I had serious installation ideas I wanted to make. Hahaha.

On the weekends we’d travel from our little village to bigger towns to visit museums. We’d always go to an art store and on one of those trips I picked up some colored oil pastels. Eventually instead of drawing the Umbrian landscape with my pencils I started making marks with those colorful pastels.

It would be a year and a half before I finally gave into my desire to paint, but once the painting door was open I was all in. In the fall of 2010 I started the Hero’s Cake series in our spare bedroom in Malleswaram.

The Hero’s Cake series spanned about a year and a half and was influenced by my yoga practice, living in Bangalore and the rub between desire, discipline and becoming. More on the ideas behind it coming tomorrow.

But here's what to know for now —

I have 3 paintings left from this series that I've never offered for sale.

Over the next few days 2 of them will be offered through an auction format! I had the idea yesterday, I love it and we're running with it.

So tomorrow look out for an email with the the details on how to participate. If you're as excited as I am, hit Reply back and tell me.

Till then!

Michelle

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PS. A heads up — over the next couple weeks you may be getting more emails from me than usual.

PPS: Here's a preview of what's coming....

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