My life in Food

The dish I choose to cook for this project was shrimp Alfredo, I choose this because since my family members have sworn off beef and chicken, we have been eating more and more seafood. its also my favorite dish.

the ingredients i used for this dish is

1. garlic
2. Alfredo sauce 
3. linguine noodles
4. shrimp
5. salt, pepper, sazon, and other seasonings.

• The first thing i did was start the sauce because it being out the jar, i had to fix it up so it wouldn't be that noticeable (my aunt would kill me for using jarred sauce). i started that with some garlic and seasonings.
• Then put on the noodle to cook because knew the shrimp would only take about 8 minutes.
• Towards the end of the noodles cooking i started marinating the shrimp in the seasonings and then when the noodles were finished, i started cooking the shrimp.

i added the last picture to show it was me :)

Food as a Metaphor

1. In my opinion i feel that it relates metaphorically to food as art because usually when you go to an art gallery, you view these sculptures and paintings and you visually take them in, and then days even hours later they forget about what they experienced. As when actually consuming the art work and having it come out their body they take it inside visually and they digest it and they see it days later (ew), but with that aside, I always remember what I've eaten.
2. The connection between Post WW-II and canned soup was that we became disconnected to the culture of growing and making food and also bonding bonding together making it. It showed we strayed from that and went to the instant canned goods we were familiar with.
3. I'm not sure how I feel about baking bread as a political act, but i understand where that if we don't know what goes into our bread and food as we don't know what goes into the decision makings in politics and the government that we are in, we truly are lost.
4. I feel both of the pieces are meant to empower someone, The last supper is to show Jesus and his disciples around the table gathering for what is to be known their last meal, The Dinner Party also gives us women a place to be in history where we've been forgotten.
5.  Rirkrit Tiravanija took advantage of the food as art experience in an amazing way, not only cooking to bring people together and showing them the art of bonding threw food, he also took the opportunity to give people knowledge about his culture.

Hw Blog Assignment

One skill that I have learned from my family is doing hair, my great-grandmother taught my aunts and grandmother, and she taught my mom and my sisters. Growing up around majority of women around me, it was easy for me to pick up and learn. Now its my responsibility to do my niece hair when my sister can't do it, and do my cousins also, because growing up I had someone doing it for me. If i had to convey this in an artwork, I think I would display it a local block fairs and festivals throughout the NYC area. The materials I'd use would be products that I've used in my life, and things that I would hope to use in the future of doing my and my families hair. I'd display styles that I know to do on Mannequins and display pictures.

 

Lecture Questions

1. The piece that Antoni worked on, symbolized all the people shes encountered her life and linked them together. It is pieces of material given to her by people close to her and other materials that were dear to her heart, making the rope making process even more sentimental. Each part of the rope is sectioned, that way the story is clear that is attached to the rope and gives it more meaning.
2. I think that what Janine Antoni is trying to get across by showing both of the processes is that we never know what we ourselves are capable of. We have to be willing to learn and test out our dreams to really be complete in our adventures.
3. In my opinion, I think they would understand. The way she shows the process of using her body in her artwork makes it easy to understand that things have greater meanings when they come from you.

Moma Review

Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin
Gino Sererini
Oil on Canvas with sequins
1912

1. I feel like the painting is representing the fact that even all messed up and disassembled, we can still see the beauty of things. And it may not be forefront but all things have unique qualities of them. For instance, when I first saw this I didn't like it, but the more I stared at it, I loved it.
2. Verbal supplements such as the words bowling, and a woman riding the scissors, also people to be what appears dancing and having fun.
3. The painting was made out of oil on canvas with sequins placed on it. it was very detailed and the pieces strategically placed in a way that we can still understand the story.
4. The content of the painting I think is the story of maybe what he experienced in his life, using the bright colors.
5. In the scale aspect of the piece, it looks as if, it was mounted on a table and he stood over it very closely to get every piece right. 

     7. The context of the work of this piece in my opinion that our minds are just as complex and this painting, that we can comprehend anything we want to, just depends on how out minds process it.
     8. From this time period I've never seen an artwork like this, its very modern in a sense, but also very conservative to ones culture.
     9. I don't think this piece is very traditional.
   
For some reason I don't feel the other questions don't apply, I would like to further discuss this in class.