Notes: The Everyday

The “Book book”. IKEA Catalogue, 2015

​“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

~ Roald Dahl, The Minpins, 1991

Making Do and Getting By. Richard Wentworth, 1970—On-going

Cat in Jungle. Gabriel Orozco, 1992

Findings: ITER. Stills from video footage, Adeleine Daysor, 2004

“…The everyday presents us with a recalcitrant object
that does not give up its secrets too readily.”

~Ben Highmore,“Questioning Everyday Life”, 2002

Something.  Acrylic paint on wall, Lily Van der Stokker, 1996

Blob 05 (blue). Industrial paint on aluminium, David Batchelor, 2013

Mundane Euphoria. Oil on canvas, Adeleine Daysor, 2007

Plant growing from ceiling, resembling  a light fixture. Photo documentation, Adeleine Daysor, 2015

Four Heads and a Crown. Acrylic on sandpaper, Adeleine Daysor, 2011

“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it”

~Jasper Johns

Satellite Sleep.  Acrylic and oil on canvas panel, Adeleine Daysor, 2015

"Painting cannot affirm the autonomy of things if it does not possess that autonomy itself."

~Sharon Butler, "Raoul De Keyser: The loss of certainty", 2016

Master's Thesis, California College of the Arts 2011

Excerpt: "Mythic Realities"

“The whole world is offered to us, but by way of a look. We are no longer burdened by events, as soon as we behold their images with an interested, then simply curious, then empty but fascinated look.”

~Maurice Blanchot, Everyday Speech.

Sky Envelope...Looking into the Deep. Watercolour on Fabriano Acquarello paper, Adeleine Daysor, 2019

2020 (Everyday Myth).  Oil on canvas, Adeleine Daysor, 2020