IS THIS STILL LIFE

• QUINCE JAM
• CITRUS RINDS
• AUTUMN EVENING

A painter and her muse build a blissful dream-life for themselves behind closed doors, far from the watchful eyes of a callous society. Outside of the creative refuge they’ve pieced together, each leads a reputable life full of service and devotion. Modern culture might argue there’s nothing dishonorable about the long autumn evenings spent sipping spirits, cooking extravagant spreads, dancing, painting, and laughing into the wee hours, but when a jealous suitor begins poking around, the entire hamlet gets pulled into the uproar. Is This Still Life? puts the zing back into “Amazing.”

Long autumn evenings brimming with drink and congeniality, a dream long-forgotten but lodged deep within your very being, an afternoon at the museum spent admiring Baroque art.

A steamy evening simmering sauces and slow dancing in the kitchen, an even steamier late night commingling between the sheets, a lazy, late morning lingering over a copious breakfast banquet.