I began this painting while at Takt Berlin, but I wasn’t able to finish it there so I completed it this fall. Its substrate is another purchase from Latgale Tirgus in Riga, Latvia (the same flea market where I purchased the preprinted 1980s wall-newspaper “Combat Sheet” which serves as the substrate for Loafing).
Unlike earlier works on ephemera from occupied territories, this piece uses stationery straight from the Soviet core: the USSR Ministry of Fisheries. I once again painted the Baltic Sea (its third appearance in this series!), with a black-headed gull eating an unauthorized catch on top of the bisected bureaucratic emblem.
This is Private Enterprise, acrylic on USSR Ministry of Fisheries stationery from the 1970’s, 11.38x8.2”, 2026.