Tim Davis Couch in Car 2010 pigment print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Scott Daniel Ellison Snowman and Wolf 2010 acrylic on board NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
Raphaëlle de Groot 1273 petites choses qui ne servent plus 2010 inkjet print Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
Donna Karan Dress 2010 wool-blend jersey Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
Roger Shimomura The Lineup #2 2010 acrylic on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
Andrei Roiter Contact 2010 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Patrick Wilson Insomniac 2010 acrylic on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
Sean Scully Wall of Light - Grey Pink 2010 oil on aluminum Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Max Kozloff Portrait of designer Kevin Walz 2010 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
Daan van Golden Mozart 2010 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Johannes Kahrs Untitled (young man 1) 2010 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
Koos Breukel Mees Jongema 2010 C-print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Vincent Fecteau Untitled 2010 painted papier-mâché Art Institute of Chicago |
Vincent Fecteau Untitled 2010 painted papier-mâché Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
Tony Campbell The Raft 2010 pigment print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
AES+F (art collective) The Feast of Trimalchio: Arrival of the Golden Boat 2010 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Caramel Drizzle
"Caramel syrup or caramel drizzle?"
"Sorry?"
"Caramel syrup or caramel drizzle?
This is overheard conversation. I look up: it is a tall slim woman with a ponytail buying the drink at a Starbucks counter. She is wearing a dark blue uniform. We are in an airport. She is probably a flight attendant.
Long pause for deliberation. She has not encountered this choice before.
"I'll take the drizzle."
Now I see her from behind, over there, with her blond ponytail and sticking-out ears, drinking her caramel drizzle.
While she stood at the counter and deliberated, I was deciding that the drizzle was a smaller amount of caramel than the syrup, even though surely syrup must be involved in the drizzle.
Later, she walks away with another airline employee, the empty cup in her hand, the caramel drizzle inside her.
And then she turns out to be the attendant on my flight – her name is Shannon. So, her caramel drizzle will also be going with us to Chicago.
– Lydia Davis, from Our Strangers (2023)