Pairing my love of art history with a desire to remake it according to my own recipe led me to an examination of paintings from old masters such as Caravaggio, David, and Géricault. I studied and stripped these works down to the bones of their composition, colour, and movement, and then rebuilt my own paintings atop them. Instead of grandiose history paintings or mythological scenes, we have the mundane realm of the kitchen. And yet… these still lifes are not still. Animated by the spirits of the long-dead masters, the painted food scraps and meal-prep detritus rise up, move, and demand that we pay attention to the supposedly mundane matter of everyday life.