recipe for disaster, 2020
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Words relating to Jewish customs, traditions, heritage, history, and festivals which are always accompanied by food, are cut from an old cookery book once belonging to the artist’s mother.
There is something quite devastating in cutting out words and seeing what is lost, and what remains doesn’t make sense.
When you remove all sections from a culture, what are you left with?
Measurement: 22cm x 15cm x 30cm
Process: Paper-cutting
Materials: Vintage Jewish Cookery Book
Exhibited in:
Book, A Group Exhibition, online at organthing.com (22 February 2022)
Fabricated? Solo Exhibition, London, England (1 October 2024 - 31 January 2025)
COMMENTS
Breathtaking and heartbreaking. Thank you for giving pause in the way that you do
So powerful
I love how you respond to your subject matter
Your meticulously sectioned work is loaded with meaning, even the spaces left by the phrases form a haunting dialogue
What a smart piece
Such powerful work
I love the effect the cutting has on the book