I’ve never visited Chi-town, but I’ve heard good things. My hang up is that vacationing anywhere that’s colder than where I am currently doesn’t seem like much of a vacation. I might visit Chicago eventually, and one of the things that adds a little more weight to that decision is the artwork of Ryan Kapp. Kapp creates strange and subtle suburb-scapes with rough oils that seem warm and lonely at the same time like a song that you remember from when you were a kid. His paintings also seem to imbue that isolated feeling of living in one of millions of homes on quiet, tree-lined streets; the easiest place to be surrounded by people and still be alone. They remind me of when I used to walk across people’s front yards at night and make up stories about the families that lived inside the blank, similar houses. I didn’t look in the windows, because I knew that my stories were more interesting than the simple lives behind the curtains.
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