Picked Up at the Pig

Margaret Holmes Hoppin’ John, Duke’s mayonnaise, Café du Monde coffee, Peanut Patch boiled peanuts, Durkee’s, and Wickles Pickles turn a grocery run into a miniature Southern pantry. Painted across six fragments of historic stoneware, Picked Up at the Pig gives familiar labels and everyday staples the kind of attention usually reserved for something far more precious.

Year: 2026
 Medium: Oil on six historic pottery fragments
 Pottery: Albany-slipped stoneware, primarily c. 1880–1920
 Locality: Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Ala.
 Framed dimensions: 17.5 × 21.5 in.
 Original artwork: One of a kind