Amanda Rothschild’s watercolor and gauche paintings call to mind the millions of brief, delicate worlds within our domestic space, and the shapes that they make and that we create for them. Sink drains offer an ideal meditation on these worlds, with their reliably consistent geometry in the face of a gushing faucet and the manifold chemicals that pass through. In this series, a cluster of bubbles or sometimes a thin film of soap hang suspended and glistening in a drain hole while the configurations around them merge and morph. This is a precarious moment in the life cycle of a soap bubble, suggesting a “before” and a very, very long “after” that awaits at the bottom of the drain.

Amanda Rothschild is an artist based in New York.