Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Lisa Gal

Blowing in my Miso Soup

Oil on wood, 48"x24"

“Growing up in and working at my family's restaurant, this still life comes from a context that is materially part of my life, tied to lineage, labour, and environment. Every week, I blow into my miso soup and watch the spirals in hypnosis. There is a delight in heightened observation of these mundane moments, praising the present and unconditional self. They function as entry points into a mode of understanding that resists novelty and urgency, becoming sites where sensation, memory, and interiority can gather. ”