Report for Sculpture No.309- Daily Bread
R Daily Bread
flour – water – yeast
Mix.
knead – no knead
Fire.
bake – cook – change
define – refine
Break.
ingest – digest
extrude – examination – decompose
Bread.
Daily Bread
Sculpture No. 309
Daily Bread
(6- 2017)
Bread, eaten and shared, connects family, memory and tradition at the table.
In communication and through exchanges at the table is where my formative, childhood relationships were initiated.
Bread is slang for money.
Bread is a staple.
The loaf pan, used in the United States to bake bread, in this work is used as a metaphor for American family values.
The alteration of the loaf pan through gunfire commemorates American history and the settling of the new frontier with guns. Gun fire -shootouts- used to define the perimeters of power, ownership, place and personal property.
Daily Bread is a visual soliloquy reflecting on the social pressures that mutate the values and morals contained within the relationship of the family unit. Under fire, whether baking bread or gunshots, extreme change is precipitated and the family is forced to find other connections in their relationship in the new frontier.
The family unit in the historical loaf of American bread is like flour -the main ingredient; extremely important to the community, the family and the child-rearing, mixed with a little yeast, sugar, and water it forms the starter for the next batch of bread, mixed with a bit more flour and left in a warm spot, raising awareness; when baked and eaten carries the raised awareness contained in the bread aides in social digestion and change.
Bread cannot rise without yeast and warmth; change cannot occur without awareness and fire.
Fire is the force; awareness is the food that is education.
In my opinion.
Terms and sources:
Bread word signifying a positive reaction to something. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bread&page=2
Basic bread recipe, popular around the world, and is one of the oldest foods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread
Definition: yeast [yēst/ yeast] noun
a microscopic fungus consisting of single oval cells that reproduce by budding, and are capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- a grayish-yellow preparation of yeast obtained chiefly from fermented beer, used as a fermenting agent, to raise bread dough, and as a food supplement.
- BIOLOGY: any unicellular fungus that reproduces vegetatively by budding or fission, including forms such as candida that can cause disease.
Google search definition; Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English.
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New Question investigated is: What Body Part Best Displays Joy?
After playing with the eyes and genitals, I settled on the mouth and as always concurrent Metaphor is reviewed throughout work, with a peppering in subliminal and oxymoron, the fun never ends! The mouth will be tell all next month.
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Im still keeping crazy hours- happily : currently organizing parts, works, writing and continuing on 6 series that I have been working through, over the last year, with a few new ones on the horizon.
- Far From Blunting
Working thought Pg of sketch book.
I have produced a few new books as companions to art works and will display in Germany. I am still maintaining my 2 year self promise of 3 Journals, 260 pages a month, which is full of good reflection, drawings that feel like secrets when you leave them alone behind a closed cover.
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I work to complete:
Sculpture no. 318.
To we let es = To what we let form plurals = revelation
Ethos= Pathos= Logos, an equation by Aristotle.
Which I will post next month when completed.
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I’m excited to tour again this year traveling to
Berlin Germany in July, Calabria Italy- August, Plymouth England- September and back to Wilton NY for October, November I’m off again on to the next set of adventures!
Thank you for stopping in, please visit again and~ always- feel free to contact me.
Wishing you Peace~ m