You’ll Know When It’s Ready

Farm-fresh eggs, heirloom tomatoes, collards, purple hull peas, and okra surround a hastily scribbled family recipe and a note from Mom reminding you to call if you need help. Painted across seven fragments of historic stoneware, You’ll Know When It’s Ready captures the wonderfully imprecise way family recipes are inherited—passed down through verbal instructions, handfuls instead of measurements, and the assumption that eventually, somehow, you’ll just know.

Year: 2026
Medium: Oil on seven historic pottery fragments
Pottery: Albany-slipped stoneware, primarily c. 1880–1920
Locality: Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Ala.
Framed dimensions: 19.5 x 25.5 in. in.
Original artwork: One of a kind