Delphi’s Toast Crust Oracle, 2022

This is a playful painting. My daughter doesn't eat her toast crusts and, for fun, we look for pictures and prophesies in their discarded arrangement. I took this whimsical idea a step further in the painting and named the woman Delphi, after the ...

This is a playful painting. My daughter doesn't eat her toast crusts and, for fun, we look for pictures and prophesies in their discarded arrangement. I took this whimsical idea a step further in the painting and named the woman Delphi, after the ancient world's most famous place of prophecies. The ancients made pilgrimages to Delphi and believed that the oracle, Pythia, spoke the exact words of the god Apollo. The oracle would give counsel about whether a war campaign would be successful or the year’s harvest. My Delphi is more common or garden, musing over a leisurely breakfast and hoping for some magic. The perfect Sunday morning.