Over the past two years I’ve been fascinated with the idea that food can be crafted into an edible art project. I really love food, I’m not sure if it stems from the fact that eating keeps me alive or that food tastes good, but I’m a huge fan and I wanted to start using it as my medium. It worked into an idea of spelling things out with Spaghetti O’s and random messages on top of cakes, then eventually I started thinking “everyone has opinions about what food they like or can’t eat, but what if food could tell us their side of the relationship?”
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m a fan of not taking everything seriously, which is probably why I think it’s so funny that food could talk back to us after all their years of unheard woes and excitement. And that’s how it came to be, I wanted to humanize food by giving it voice to speak back and illustrate these possible relationships. Highlighting these relationship struggles is also an undercurrent to highlighting the different ways in which humans struggle with food: dietary restrictions, poor food choices, economical decisions, food that makes us nostalgic, the inability to cook properly, or simply “You are what you eat.” These oftentimes go unnoticed because we don’t all struggle with the same food issues. My goal for creating these images wasn’t necessarily to raise awareness of others’ struggles, but more to laugh at our humanness of daily food choices, to realize there’s so much emotion attached, and to question, “what if food had feelings after all?”
