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Bake Swaps 

In extension to the Shared Meals and the covid-19 pandemic this page shows a selection of bakes I have used to stay in contacted with people. Without the luxuries the everyday interactions it feel essential to stay in contact with those you love. However, expressing feelings of affection and longing can be difficult to verbalise and for some people difficult to receive. This can be accentuated by the awkwardness of a phone call. So, in response to this I have constructed my of form of love language. A language through baking. 

 

The rhythmic process can be almost cyclical. This motion helps me reach a start of ease, with joy raising alongside the bakes. Here the transference comes into play. What is experienced through me will, in turn, be carried over. I have found a way of connecting to the nutrition of food through nurturing and respecting it. 

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Face to face interaction allows disparities to make sense. Ones tone of voice may sound harsh but can be soothed by the warmness of physical interaction. For this reason, unspoken communication can be more powerful than words. It can neutralise or heighten the atmosphere between two people. The knife biscuits shown below turn to a more sculptural practice. They were in response to an injury a friend, Andrew Florence, sustained accidentally impaling himself in the leg, with a kitchen knife, in his own bed. The severity of the situation quickly transformed into something humours, lighthearted and absurd. The knifes shown below were a get well soon gesture. A way of offering my respects from the distance we are all having to maintain at the present. From the outside, these biscuits could seem like a harsh joke, but this style of teasing plays an accentual role in the dynamic between me and Andrew. The ideas of the biscuits is comical but the unspoken affection within them is present through the time and effort I have put into kneading and carving them. The biscuits are my way of communicating with him.

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This is an edited photo, using my biscuits and his injured leg, that Andrew sent me immediately after receiving them.  

Context:

Candy or Not Candy?

A Japanese Game show where the hosts make realistic furniture out of chocolate and the guest have to guess if it is food of really furniture by bitting into it.

Jan Svankmajer 

An example of one of Svankmajer animations which narrate bazar scenes often mingling clay and food. The sensations of watching one can feel uncomfortable as the clay characters gorge themselves with food, even the metal cutlery they are using and sometimes even each other. There is a dark humour that made me think my knife biscuits when watching. 

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