Wafer or Waffle Iron c. 1936

Richard Taylor’s drawing of a Wafer or Waffle Iron is a direct, almost technical study. I can imagine Taylor hunched over his drawing board. He’s trying to understand not just the shape, but the presence of this object, its weight and purpose. There's a real sense of care in the shading along the handles, the way he captures the light reflecting off the metal. It's like he's trying to touch the object with his pencil. I’m thinking about what it means to observe something so closely. How an artist’s attention can transform even the most mundane object into something worth contemplating. It reminds me of Morandi, who made these incredible paintings of bottles. He wasn’t just painting bottles. He was painting the *idea* of a bottle. Taylor’s drawing is like that, a meditation on form and function. It’s a quiet reminder that there’s beauty and interest to be found in the everyday. Artists see the world differently and reveal things we would have never seen ourselves.