Description
- Title: Kin
- Year: 2026
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions: 60 × 90 cm
Kinship is recognized before it can be explained.
Kin is a cow and a bull on one canvas, the two of them side by side. Different, and unmistakably each other’s own.
The painting asks what makes someone yours when everything visible pulls apart. The title does not ask it. It states it.
“He pressed his neck close against hers.”
— The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi, Sumerian, c. 2000 BCE
Kin turns that same recognition toward the viewer: to know something as your own at once, ahead of any explanation. That is usually how collecting actually works, ahead of the reasoning, ahead of the words.
