Bank: Toy Building 1935 - 1942

Here's Telli's toy building, rendered in watercolor, on paper. I can imagine Telli carefully building up the composition with washes of red, white and gold, layer upon layer. Did Telli take a photo for reference? Or was it just in their mind's eye? The house emerges, brick by brick, in a playful exploration of form and color. The brushstrokes are delicate, almost tentative, as if the artist is feeling their way through the subject. There is a tension between precision and improvisation, which speaks to the very nature of painting itself as an ongoing experiment. Looking at this image, I can see how Telli thinks about the conversation with other artists through time, taking cues from folk art or the color choices from Pop Art. The painting feels like a diary entry – a fleeting moment of beauty and reflection, where the act of painting becomes a way of seeing and understanding the world anew.