Fishy
Seafood
For those who have seen the picture of my last mosaic piece, “Seafood”, and have wondered what in the world was going through my mind when I made it, here is the best explanation I can offer. One day, when I was already working on two other mosaics, I had taken a break to eat lunch. While I was eating, a vision of pointy little tesserae in ocean-floor colors formed in my mind. After lunch, I made the necessary preparations for creating the work, and I finished in just a few hours. In the back of my mind lurked those daily warnings we get about the toxic nature of our food chain in which seafood figures prominently. Also, I was considering cuisine around the world, all of which contains some elements that other people do not consider food at all. I was thinking about funny-looking prickly and slimy and crunchy things which are eaten with fingers or forks or chopsticks. I was thinking about where they had come from in the first place. I put all these ideas onto a piece of chipped china to make a new piece of art which amuses and disgusts.
So, what do you think about while you’re eating your sandwich?
i think its a cool artistic expression
Hey, Foodie-Man, do you make slimy, crunchy, funny-looking things to serve sometimes? 🙂 Here in Texas, there is a tradition of eating prickly-pear cactus (without the spines). In Spanish, they are called ‘nopalitos’. In a nearby grocery store, they employ people part-time to stand in the middle of the produce section with their big knives and remove spines from the prickly pear pads right there among the customers. They work like lightning. Then, you can buy whole pads, sliced pads, or corsely chopped pads.
You ask what I think about when I eat my sandwich.
I think, “This peanut butter and jelly sandwich tastes really good. I was really hungry! Gosh, is the sandwich already finished? That pleasure didn’t last very long!”