Untitled. Winter Album 2016

Kinder Album made this untitled watercolour on paper sometime around 2016, and its loose and intimate style really speaks to me. It's a little like a dream, but not quite. The colours are mostly muted, washed-out blues and reds, giving it this wintry feeling. And the lines! They’re so free and sketchy, it’s like Album is thinking right onto the paper. Look at the way she renders the falling snow as negative space in the wash. There's something so casual about the way she moves from the figure of the girl in a hat to the odd still life elements, it feels like a collection of disparate thoughts and images that come together to form an interior world. The little jar full of cash reminds me of David Hockney somehow, maybe just because they both love to draw their surroundings. It’s an open-ended conversation, and I’m all ears.