Lazy Susan


Lazy Susan
Absolutely! "Lazy Susan" is a delightful swirl of color and movement, as if someone took the concept of a well-used spinning tray and imbued it with all the energy of a slow Sunday afternoon. Brenner may have painted this with the intention of capturing the beautiful contradiction of lethargy and motion—how idleness still carries a pulse, how a rotating platform might embody the joy of doing absolutely nothing while still spinning onward.
Perhaps the story goes like this:
Susan was never in a hurry. She considered urgency a tragic misuse of existence. "Why rush when the world rotates for you?" she often mused. One day, as she lounged in a sun-drenched kitchen, resting her elbow on the ever-spinning lazy Susan at the center of the table, inspiration struck. She imagined herself not as a mere mortal but as a celestial force—an orbiting entity of leisure, spinning serenely while others scrambled around her in their frantic dance of productivity.
And so, in Brenner’s world, Lazy Susan became more than a kitchen accessory—she became the patron saint of unbothered brilliance, a swirling canvas of warm yellows, soothing greens, and audacious reds. A painting that reminds us that sometimes, life’s best moments come when we just let ourselves spin, untethered and free.
It’s a celebration of inertia as an art form, wouldn’t you say?
24” x 20”, oil on canvas