Morning Routine Painting

Home•bound is a series of new paintings created over the past year in New York City during lockdown, during a timeframe when borders were closed and she could not return home to her native France. The paintings capture the anxieties of a world in crisis, filtered through the inward lens of Plume’s struggle with antidepressants and the withdrawals associated with them. Painting from life and perception, the works trace the contours of Plume’s world as it slowly reopened: still life paintings of pills, arranged in angular setups critical of the industry, questioning the easy access and abuse of medication for mental illnesses;