From an occupied goldfish bowl sitting atop a lit stove to a girl carrying a plastic grocery bag filled with live swans, American painter Shannon Cartier Lucy conjures up scenes of a distinctly disquieting nature. Simultaneously hypnotising and horrifying, each of her works leaves you reeling with unanswered questions—and this 2019 depiction of a forlorn reader, seated in an all-beige sitting room pondering the possibilities of intimacy post-departure, is no exception.
