OT: Food In Art, was, Re: [Sca-cooks] Perioid versus period

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:

>Many years ago my girlfriend and I went to Santa Barbara for a day 
>trip, and happened upon a small
>gallery which was featuring an art exhibit called "Paper, Paint, 
>Meat, Cake".  Intrigued, we went
>inside.  The exhibit was comprised of various works of art based 
>upon the four forms in the title.
>  There were various pieces which used paper of all types in a wide 
>array of interesting ways.
>There were semi-abstract painted pieces (mostly furniture and Trompe 
>L'oi [???? sp]), but there
>were also pieces 'painted' entirely with Royal Icing and other cake 
>media (pastillage, marzipan,
>etc).  But, the most incredible display was the Meat.  Not real 
>meat, but paintings of meat.  And
>not just edible meat...one of the paintings was called Uteral 
>Garland, and from a distance it
>looked just like a garland of flowers.  When you examined it 
>closeup, though...wow.  My favorite
>piece in that collection, however, was simply called 'Rashers'.  It 
>was bacon.  And it was painted
>in impeccable detail.  Fascinating.

Also many years ago, when there used to be a department store chain 
named Alexander's in the US, a local store a few blocks from my 
parents' house had some children's artwork in a window display. It 
appears they had gotten kids from one of the local grade schools to 
make small, maybe 8.5 by 11 inch, paintings of stores. A child's 
celebration of retail.

One of them depicted a shop with its wares on display in the window 
under a sign reading, "Car, Cake and Gun Store." I realized 
immediately that whoever this kid was, he or she was bound to be a 
huge success, because (s)he had his/her finger precisely on the pulse 
of American consumerism. Every American has got to want to shop at a 
Car, Cake and Gun store, because no store, in prior history, has 
addressed the basic needs of the average American more completely and 
specifically.

I want to own a Car, Cake and Gun store.

Adamantius
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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04