KARTEL KITCHEN

painter. cook. voice. one plate, three arts.

↓ ENTER ↓ © KK · 2026

VOL.X · AT THE TABLE THE GUY ↗ © VOL.X 2026

/01 — MANIFESTO

Cooking is painting you eat.
A painting is a meal you watch.
We sit somewhere in between — talking with our mouths full.

Kartel Kitchen is the world of Vol.X — painter, cook, host. Out of Austin, Texas, somewhere between a backyard grill and an oil-stained studio. He paints loud, cooks slow, and holds court at a long wooden table where the wine is open before the conversation starts.

Three rooms, one door: the brush, the burner, the mic.

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ART

— canvas & finger

Self-portrait with Frida — painting by Vol.X — FEATURED // 2025
Self-Portrait *with Frida*

Cubist pop, Mexican gold, a saint on the forearm. Vol.X paints himself the way he cooks — loud colors, hot palette, no apology.

**Medium** oil & oil stick on canvas

**Size** 100 × 70 cm

**Year** 2025

**Status** available — DM

More works dropping soon. Originals & prints by request — write the kitchen.

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KITCHEN

— recipes of the cartel

№ 001

Stew of Sleepless Nights

4h · serves 6

A red that hurts. Smoked bacon that remembers. Wine that doesn't ask. Slow flame. A conversation that turns while the pot turns.

#family#smoke#tex-balkan

№ 002

Fish in Gold, Lemon & Silence

45 min · serves 2

Butter, saffron, one song from the record player. A plate that looks like a painting, a painting that smells like dinner.

#sea#sunday#two

№ 003

Bread That Remembers Grandmother

overnight · serves all

Sourdough as old as the courtyard. Baked on stone. Torn by hand. Never sliced. Never.

#base#slow#ritual

Vol.X cooking — at the burner / sunday morning

Casamigos in hand — before the first plate

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PODCAST

— mouth full, heart full

Every week, someone with something to say sits at the Kartel Kitchen table. No script. Plenty of sauce. Listen while you cook, cook while you listen.

EP 01
The Painter Who Doesn't Eat Alone
— 58 min · soon

Pilot. Who is Vol.X, what is the Kartel, why the kitchen.
EP 02
The Red of Paprika vs. The Red of Blood
— 1h 12min · soon

Guest: TBA. On pigment, on spice, on what separates a painting from dinner.
EP 03
Would Dalí Eat This?
— 47 min · soon

Surrealism at the table. Melting clocks served with mash.