day 1 of "9/13/25 colored pencil/collage" / by Philip Tarlow

3:07 PM: this morning a workman arrived to cap the leaky valve that feeds water to our refrigerator freezer, interrupting work on this new piece. thus far, it’s colored pencil & collage on bristol paper, with no watercolor. but that may change tomorrow. right now we’re both exhausted, since we’ve been up since 3 am, when the leaky water coming down through the ceiling from the kitchen, upstairs, woke us up.

the renovation of our kitchen will be complete on wednesday, and until then we’ll be having our morning coffee in the studio, where mikela has been working on her educational platform. this is the first time we’re both working in the studio, and i love it!