FIG. 01 — THE ROSTER
The artists
Every hand on the platform, and the work each of them has open right now. A lot is one work in progress, listed at its first mark.
READING THE ROSTER…
FIG. 01 — ARTIST
Mira Adeyemi
Verified artistVERIFIEDOil, linen, slow · Lagos / Lisbon
Paints in nine-session cycles and refuses to varnish anything she is still arguing with.
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FIG. 04 — THE RECORD
Mira Adeyemi writes the process down as it happens — sessions, materials, setbacks, and the parts that got scraped off. The entry stays up whatever the work becomes.
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Day 28 — A pigment that refuses to sit still
A vermilion substitute that keeps creeping into the neighbouring wet passages. I have stopped fighting it and started placing it where the creep does something useful.
LOT 042 · MIRA ADEYEMI
Day 17 — The under-drawing nobody will ever see
The drawing is finished and it is the best thing in the painting. It will be under two more sessions of oil by Friday. This is the part of the job that never stops being a small…
LOT 042 · MIRA ADEYEMI
Day 09 — Choosing a linen that will outlive me
Rejected two rolls for the weave and one for the sizing. The one I kept is heavier than I usually work on and it has already changed how much oil the first pass will take.
LOT 042 · MIRA ADEYEMI