travel vicariously

https://www.mohawkconnects.com/feltandwire/2010/11/12/traveling-vicariously-with-painter-bella-foster/

What first inspired you to paint other people’s homes, their workspaces, their “stuff”?

I like the way people live and express their character through their homes. It’s very personal, like doing a portrait. I also like that my friend’s homes are not set up to be photographed as “fabulous” places to live or aspire to live, but instead they have their piles of stuff, and books, mementos and ordinary things that may not be considered so special — but that’s what’s fun, to find the specialness in all that. Sometimes I’ll add surprises that I know the person would like to live with in their weird dream world … like an Ettore Sottsass bookcase.