My latest drawings continue to some extent with the food theme in that they combine prints using food, e.g. noodles, with drawn lines. The food theme seems quite important somehow though I am only inching towards an understanding of why. One thing I read recently explores the political importance of food.
“As a ritual of integration, the meal, far from being a simple mechanism of automatic consensus, is an instance of negotiation… It can function as a procedure of mobilisaton, allegiance, or reconciliation. … it offers of course a marvelous opportunity for treachery …
Thus eating together is a recurrent means of political participation in all its dynamism, complexity, and even conflctuality.” (from The Illusion of Cultural Identity, Jean-Francois Bayart)
