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MODULAR KITCHEN
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BAKER’S MONOTYPE
BAKER’S MONOTYPE (2019-on going)
Experimental printmaking
Bread Print on baking parchment and linen
Informed by the artist’s Ashkenazi heritage, Baker’s Monotype taps into the tradition of braiding challah to symbolise the coming together of community; reflecting on the idea of bread as more than sustenance. Ingrained with significance, from the cultural to the political, social, and economic, bread has been associated with times of generosity and goodwill as often as it has been rooted to the bleak, uncertain, and scarce. Borrowing from the vocabulary of fibre arts, dough is then crocheted, woven, knotted, and spun—expanding the visual symbolism of the braided loaf to include the vast terminology of textile traditions and the symbolic weight of human relations.
Through the treatment of parchment paper as a matrix, dough as a medium, and linen as the printed surface, a unique image can be made during the baking process that results in a ghostly trace left on the cloth. The prints are then revealed by the communal act of breaking bread, transforming them into artefacts of past performances, happenings, interventions, and moments of coming together.
If you remember breaking bread with me at some point over the years and you took photos, I would love to see them! Reach out to me here:
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