A Morandi bottle rendered in blue foam. A painting professor who’s name I cannot remember from my Sophmore year of undergrad championed Morandi, and I cannot remember exactly why…except that I know he wanted me to paint in big broad strokes instead of the small energetic ones I was inherently drawn to. This was made during my MFA, my first blue foam model turned on a lathe, a very classic assignment. It was an interesting choice, using a favorite of a professor who refused to let me render forms in the way I wanted…yet I used it as a protest of the sterile forms the new industry I was entering so cherished.