Oh hi! I can’t figure out how to delete this Mail Icon, but if you want to email me —> katebingamanburt@gmail.com

I also Have a SUbstack! I can’t figure out how to make the previous sentence look like a link, but it’s a link.

Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator & educator.

Her work orbits around the objects in our lives: the things we buy, the things we discard, and the collectivity and social interaction that can arise from cycles of consumption. Via illustrations, daily documentation, publications, events, large-scale participatory projects, client work, and a full-time role as educator, Kate’s work invites a dialogue about contemporary forms of exchange.

Daily Drawings

Nineteen years ago (February 5th, 2006), I started drawing something I purchased daily. I had a few rules: black pen, white paper, no do-overs. Put them on the internet, put them in a zine, and share.

There are now thousands of drawings behind me and thousands more ahead of me.

I was 28 when I started this project. These drawings have documented marriage, changing jobs, moving, traveling, opening a business, and having my kid, Hank. They have recorded friendships. They have recorded life through my purchases from the incredibly boring to the exciting to the in-between.

I love documenting my days through these line drawings. This project has become a time for reflection, for quiet, for just spending a few minutes to think about my day. I like how drawing makes you slow down. I like how drawing an object makes you see.

I started this project on the heels of drawing my credit card statements as a form of punishment. I chose drawing because it was my least favorite way to create. I started this project because I wanted to draw something other than my dumb credit card statements and because I tricked myself into actually liking the drawing process. Nineteen years later, it’s my favorite thing to do.

Below you will find the first 8 years of Daily Purchase Drawings and then you can find the rest over on my Instagram and now over on my Substack.