Inspiration in Ingredients

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The studio isn’t the only place to create artwork. What about the kitchen, the table, the market or the farm? In our excitement for the new FREE Art House project - The Meal - we wanted to share with you a smattering of cool food-related works. From the conceptual to the performative, the documentary-inspired to the sketchbook-encompassed, we think you’ll find these projects just delicious.

ABOVE: Have you had your daily dose of color? Artist Tattfoo Tan creates projects that enhance our awareness of the food we eat. Through a food color-cataloguing system, he creates murals and other public artworks that display all the colors in a healthy human diet. In this instance, good nutrition truly does = beautiful.

BELOW: “Incubation” —- an interactive food-based performance by artist Jennifer Rubell.

Two performers dressed as nurses make yogurt inside a sterile room, while onlookers watch & wait…

The viewers eventually receive freshly made yogurt from inside the sterile yogurt-making room. They can add honey from a public honey drip nearby. Rubell notes that this interactive performance is intended to create an experience for onlookers in which they get to explore “a rarely depicted side of the creative act, the process of waiting, receiving, passivity.”

BELOW: For the food documentarian in all of us….

Do you Tweet your treats? Post your roasts? There are apps like Forkly and YumYum that can help you share your meals, snacks, and drinks more efficiently.

And of course, our favorites. We always love to share from our own archives. Here are a few food-themed spreads from some recently received 2012 Sketchbook Project sketchbooks! Thanks for all your amazing work!