Painting in oil on canvas forms a reference pojnt for expansive explorations into all aspects of painting, such as using human milk as painting material, exploring collectivity and intersubjectivity in relation to artistic authorship, and developing tools and technology for painting and accompanying discursive processes.
Bold, 240 x 180 cm, oil on canvas, 2024.
Red Shoes in Trash Bag, 60 x 60 cm, oil on canvas, 2025.
Walking from Frauenklinik to Futurium, corner piece, anamorphic. 2017, wall paint. Elkins describes the shock of the slow pace experienced by scholars encountering materiality in an artist studio work. He says: "Art historians who are new to the studio can find their minds racing like the engines of cars stuck in ice.“
2009, I began shaping marks made by spillage of human milk. I taught myself to paint and draw in human milk.
Painting in milk proved to be difficult and interesting (more here on painting in human milk).
By then, Patricia Andersdottir Roth, (Precarious Artistic Researcher) was so destitute (She was looking for the Monument Against Patriarchy - MAP - when Precarity got in the Way.) and sick of forming work to apply for always too little funding, she embarked on the wild ride that it was to convince the Berlin Senate, that, despite being a highly educated artist, she could teach art in public schools. She also convinced them she could teach philosophy. Some former artist bubble colleagues asked why she had "given up". She was also asked: Aber was machst Du mit den schlechten Gedanken?