THE PURPOSE OF ART IS WASHING THE DUST OF DAILY LIFE OFF OUR SOULS.

Pablo Picasso

By now, one month into our quarantine, our daily shelter-in-place existence has become routine in morning to evening daily rituals. Three artists make the daily rituals we now take for granted their own sources of inspiration.

Breakfast Ritual of Toast = Zen GARDEN

The impermanence of the Zen garden is made more real in artist, Manami Sasaki’s renderings in sour cream on toast anchored by walnut and macadamia nuts burrowed into matcha powder “moss.” Like a ceramic in kiln, once the bread is toasted, the art changes too (click arrow to right). Manami creates toast art everyday, breakfast becomes a creative ritual with daily reinventions. Her toast gallery is filled with visual gems, rich in color, patterns, presentation, and texture. It’s like a catwalk gallery of toast!

Our Sanitary Needs Elevated in Potholes

Jim Bachor makes mosaic art on pothole fillers in Chicago and New York. Civic duty and ancient techniques find a new life in toilet paper roll and Dial Soap commemorations. Bachor keeps his art accessible and while solving a city wide dilemma: the number of potholes in our roads.

Mini Me Revisited in Make Up

Now that wearing make up is an optional daily feat, make up is freed up for more creative use: trompe l’oeil fun…on your face. Blogger Jaime French has harnessed a trend called “Tiny Face MakeUp,” in her YouTube Video.

In these three pieces elevate our mundane rituals into quarantine spectacles.