Southern Staples

Three miniature oil paintings on historic Mobile Bay pottery fragments, hand-collected along the Eastern Shore and displayed in brass and glass shadow box. 6x8x2”

John’s Island tomatoes—these were the kind of tomatoes that needed just white bread, Duke’s, and salt. Every summer, we'd stop at a roadside stand—no sign, just crates and a cash box—and load up. That sandwich was always the first taste of real summer.