Chapter 9

Clara inserted the stuffed chicken in the oven which sat on a mantel piece right next to a four-head gas cooker set. She shut the tinted oven door as she went to work with the gas cooker, making the ramen she had been craving since the opening ceremony of ‘La Casa de Arte Unimaginable’. That was the name Jensen had decided to give the studio. She waited for the noodles to boil properly taking a quick scan of the kitchen.

Jensen has never felt the need for privacy and neither had her husband which was why they had as few doors as possible. The only doors in their little apartment here in San Francisco were the ones to the rooms and of course, the front and back doors. The entire house was covered in colors of different shades and tones. The kitchen alone had about ten different colored tiles -some red, some pink, maroon, burgundy, orange- all of which were arranged in form of a gradient of the color red.

After a minute, she dished her meal into a ceramic plate close by and took the