Bottled Up is a series of work that explores the social preference to bottle up emotions, by reflecting on my father’s own way of being in the world, through his carafe as an object of still life. There’s a stillness; a presence; and clarity that’s captured with the carafe and the glass. If we quiet down enough and let the emotions happen, we can see moments of depth in the ordinary things that become a part of our lasting memory. Glimmers in the Ordinary was painted with oils on canvas panel in the VAS studio. Custom framed in Victorian ash.