The Recipe
Why
Going from meal to meal to meal - is that all there is? How much of my time and energy do I need to spend to maintain this limited human body, which will ultimately fail me anyway? Can I outsource the maintenance? Can I shift my identification from the body to the spirit? What’s the recipe for success?
The “takeaway” menu is a list of food to go - minimizing the investment in care of the body - but also an assortment of conclusions about the cost of identifying with the body.
The walls are papered with recipes - combinations and procedures worked out by the people who came before us, but which are rooted in the past. Behind the recipes the sky is visible, with clouds starting to clear or continuing to form. In the window the sun is setting, or is it rising?
How
“Takeaway” menu - created by me based on the borders I observed in an old book my friend Willow showed me. I printed it out, photographed it, and placed the photograph in model Liv’s hands digitally.
Recipes - from my mother’s recipe box, in her handwriting.
Pot and spatula - from my kitchen.
Party shoes - given to me by my friend Amy.
Setting/rising sun - Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Cloudy sky - above Charlotte, North Carolina, on an airplane en route to visit my family.
Doll dress - Ebay!
Setting - the kitchen of a dollhouse purchased at Circa
