Quiet Quitting | Ravi Zupa

ORIGINAL COMPOUND INTERESTS DRAWINGS: I have three wonderful employees that come to my studio and we work hard every day. We all take lunch together and often go on short walks after we eat. We talk about all kinds of things that are of interest to us. This is often the inspiration that goes into these little drawings. Conversations about what’s happening in our lives, things we’ve read about, current events, and so on. The Compound Interests Series pursues whatever little ideas pop in my head and I make little scenes with Bird Pot creatures contemplating aspects of those little ideas.

When I bought the house that I now live and work in (nicknamed the Commerce City Art Compound!), the previous owner who sold it to me had five ducks and a goose living in the back yard that he planned to kill unless I wanted them. I’d never had any interest in owning birds but it didn’t feel right, condemning them to death, so they stayed. Since then I’ve fallen in love with them. They are 100% funny and beautiful! I get a little shot of joy every day when I’m taking care of them. The Bird Pot creatures and Compound Interests drawings are a little bit inspired by them. Like us, they are leading simple little lives with their own politics, complexities, difficulties, and limitations and they are surrounded by a huge, complicated world that they have no hope of truly understanding.