Chicken Town

Apropos of nothing more than picking a direction with a creative pursuit and sticking with it, I point you to Chicken Town. It’s delightful.

As soon as I decided to paint chickens, all on the same 7x7 paper, I started knocking out chickens very quickly. […] Despite having a whole studio space for work, I paint chickens at our kitchen table. The kitchen is now full of chickens. After producing a dozen or two, I realized the paintings look like profile pics. I’d created an analog social network of pretend chicken friends. So, I started calling that corner of the kitchen Chicken Town, as one does.

In the breathless wake of AI-all-the-things, we must celebrate flesh and blood artists making real art. For the time being, you can even acquire an original.

Be sure to also check out Clickens, a sort of hot-or-not of the chicken prints, but instead of judging hotness, you judge paintings on indolence, pettiness, righteousness, duplicity, and more.