Breaking Bread

2019 - 2020

Plaster casts, mold

Breaking Bread was made during a residency in late 2019 in which the focus of social activity revolved around meals and eating together. We moved from our solitary work space to a room full of people. Bread and apples were a constant presence at the dining room and I would take some back to the studio each day until the next time everyone gathered. I began to mold and cast the bread and apples to see how they changed and progressed with time and each cast and to preserve the idea of conviviality they brought. When I returned home, I stored them away, and when the pandemic began, I brought them out to find mold had begun to grow. It seemed that although I had tried to preserve the bread and apples, they continued to change, serving as a reminder of togetherness and hope for gathering again.