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Just a quick note: my old art school friend Kirstin has a blog, Forgone All Custom of Exercises. She used to do these neat, drippy quasi-abstractions; now she appears to be focusing on tightly rendered, satirical-absurdist still-lifescapes like this one. But the work still partakes—in its own way—in that dense, layered, clustering aesthetic that we both love so. (Also see Tracy Miller's paintings.)