This is the final chalkboard piece that I created during my full-time employment at Sugar2Salt. It's far from a goodbye, but still represents a farewell, a thank you, and an expression of love and appreciation for the time that I've spent there. The simple message of "We love you" is my way of saying "I love you" to the restaurant and its patrons, and serves to communicate also what I know to be true about the restaurant and its ownership: that they love and appreciate their patrons dearly. To those unfamiliar with S2S, the gentlemen pointing at you is none other than Chef Jonathan Dayton!

I received Anthony Bourdain's classic Kitchen Confidential as a Christmas gift and absolutely flew through it, enamored with Bourdain's wit, humility, and love for the restaurant cook. In his follow-up book, Medium Raw, this was one of my favorite quotes. It's a perfect distillation of his attitudes about cooking. The hands were drawn from a photo in Jacques Pépin's classic culinary technique book, La Technique, where he demonstrates how to properly peel and mince garlic. I had picked up La Technique by Bourdain's endorsement!

This piece depicts a gentle wavy water surface, with the swells of waves that catch light as a bright and colorful mishmash, and the dark shadows completely void of light. The large contrast between the two don't necessarily follow with a complicated water surface, but I feel that such a stark contrast is complementary to the look & aesthetics that come with using chalk.

This client was going to paint over their chalkboard wall because, with their kids moved out, it no longer served its purpose to keep track of chores. But, they saw a chalkboard piece that I did for S2S, and was inspired to reach out to me to see if I could breathe new life into their wall. I was given near-free artistic liberty, and it's one of my favorite chalkboard pieces I've done.

A valentines-inspired chalkboard for S2S put up for the month of February. The font for "all you need is" is the same font used in The Beatles's 1968 film, Yellow Submarine.

I adore Lobel's classic Frog and Toad books. I grew up reading them. This page became relevant in pop-culture in recent years, where I saw it again and had the idea to put it up at S2S. Because of people's shared loved for Frog and Toad and the relevance to S2S's pastries, it was a much-liked addition to the space. The Christmas-ification of the piece was a fun compromise to keep it around longer---it was up for five months!

A chalkboard in celebration of the arrival of spring. The phrase is a modification of the final stanzas of Mary Oliver's poem, When I Am Among the Trees: 

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

The quote was introduced to me by my wonderful environmental science teacher as an idea for the spring chalkboard at S2S. Thank you Mrs. B!

A valentines chalkboard for S2S, inspired by one of my absolute favorite Black Keys lyrics. The lyric comes from the song "Everlasting Light" off of 2010's Brothers. The line is preceded by "A train going away from pain."