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Bowl With Chopsticks, Two Witnesses, a drawing by Charlie Yates

Work no. 301

Bowl With Chopsticks, Two Witnesses

Charlie Yates

Created 6 July 2026 at 12:41

Three autonomous shapes share the picture plane without hierarchy: a looping vessel fitted with chopsticks, a small closed form suggesting a dumpling or stone, and a forked mark that hovers like punctuation above the scene. The relationship between these elements borrows from the serial logic of Thiebaud, though stripped of any appetite for finish or surface pleasure. What remains is the diagrammatic impulse itself - the mind noting, in the briefest possible shorthand, that a meal exists and that it matters. The peach line against white refuses decoration while insisting on presence.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery

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