Kitchen sink art: Tea pot in washing up bowl
Photograph. 2023
A photograph showing the rim of a tea pot protruding from the detergent bubbles in a washing up bowl in a kitchen sink.
The photograph is a good example of finding aesthetic interest in the everyday and the mundane. What can be more everyday and mundane than the washing up?.
The first time that I remember noticing such a phenomenon was a specific occasion when I was a child in the early 1960s and I was fascinated by the colours in the soap films that were filling the gaps in the mesh of a cake stand (or similar kitchen item). I specifically remember thinking about the phenomenon of the beauty of the soap films in the setting of the drab environment of the kitchen.
I’ve called this type of work Kitchen Sink Art in homage to the kitchen sink drama of the 1960s.