[Sca-cooks] RE: Bread as Art-OT OP

[Joanne Clyde]

An interesting article.  I can understand the motives of the artist, but I 
have a hard time with people using so much "food" for art pieces or 
playthings when there are people who don't have any food to eat at all.  And 
that's a hard thing to say, since I can remember making "jewelry" and 
Christmas ornaments out of pasta painted gold with glitter, and I've seen 
play tables for pre-schoolers filled with rice.  When does food stop being 
food and begin to be "play?"  A hypothetical question I guess.

This kinda leads into my question.  What do you all do with leftover food 
from Feasts?  A group that I played with would take the leftovers that had 
not ever gone out to tables to the local homeless shelter.  As long as the 
food had been cooked and delivered within a certain time period, they would 
accept it.  Does anyone else do this?

Geertruyt

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:10:00 -0400
From: Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bread as Art-OT OP
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Ok this is OT and OP and it's very silly besides.
But it is about bread.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—It’s a wonder: 3,960 slices of white bread,
from 180 loaves minus the end pieces but with the crusts.
Such is the building material installation artist Beili Liu used
in her site-specific work at the University of Michigan's Alice Lloyd Hall.
"Breadth," a wall of bread stretching about 20 feet between pillars and
more than three feet high, has become part of the Lloyd Hall
dining room and will remain so until the end of September.

http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2005/Sep05/r092205a

Johnnae