✶ This is a pre-sale item, meaning that it will go into production once the sale ends at noon on April 8th, and order fulfillment is delayed until I receive the prints in-hand ✶

It is a uniquely human propensity to carry things with us long term, over long distances.

While I have been exploring implications of this, I have been feeling myself pushing against a kind of new-fangled minimalism that moralizes having or carrying “too many” possessions — perhaps forgetting that it is such a fundamental part of the human animal’s nature.

But as I painted this fishwife apron as another thing made for carrying, I was also thinking of a favorite poem by Edna St Vincent Millay called Never May the Fruit be Plucked, which indicates that a hoard is antithetical to the process of loving, and includes the lines:

Nothing in the apron,

Nothing in the pockets.

Never, never may the fruit be gathered from the bough

And harvested in barrels.

8x10’’ archival giclee print on cotton paper