I think I was four years old and my parents had put me to bed and the last time he bent over,

the ballpoint pen from his pocket dropped onto my bed and he left.

And I had this ballpoint pen in my chubby little hand, and I started scribbling all over my sheet,

making these huge loops that crossed over each other, and it just felt so free.

Is it possible for you to tell this story without moving your arms?

No. I have to redo it. I have to show you what I'm doing.

You're like drawing circles in the air. It's like, can you describe a spiral staircase without going

like this or a goate without touching your chin? This is the Lonely Pallet, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one object at a time.

I'm Tamara Vishai.

And this season, we're back with new artists and new artworks.

From the Canadian Group of Sevens, Lauren Harris.

The floor kind of looks like a large scoop of ice cream.

Korean sculpture?

It looks really cool.

There's a lot of different kind of bulbous elements that have been kind of put together,

and it reminds me a lot of almost like a volcanic rock that's been, you know, had a lot of things like

bubbling to the surface and then sort of

solidifying into a hardened object. Rubens, with Wait Forits Ronald Young Jr.

Babies. Very, very chubby babies. I mean, babies that are, you can see every roll. There's lots

of folds of skin, like very like very mushy, squishy babies.

And many others.

We have interviews with artists and critics.

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