Dimensions: object: 57 x 57 x 105 mm object: 64 x 108 x 70 mm object: 171 x 152 x 95 mm object: 203 x 108 x 86 mm object: 235 x 187 x 130 mm object: 320 x 286 mm
Copyright: © Andrew Lord | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Andrew Lord's coffee service and tray, an impressionist set currently housed at the Tate. I find the brushstrokes quite striking. How do you interpret this work through the lens of its symbols? Curator: The coffee set, historically, signifies domesticity and social ritual, doesn't it? But Lord's impressionistic take disrupts that. Do the brushstrokes look like fractured memories to you? Editor: They do a bit, yes. Curator: Perhaps Lord is suggesting that even our most comforting rituals are imbued with fleeting, unstable sensations and experiences. What do you think? Editor: I didn't consider that angle, but it does make a lot of sense! It adds a layer of complexity that I hadn't noticed at first glance.
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