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Have you ever thought of your food as art? More specifically, your favorite cookie? This weekend I decided to bake cookies and I thought, are there any art pieces that are of cookies? Surprisingly, there are.
The chocolate chip cookie is pretty universal, and it has been around since 1930. It was created by Ruth Walkfield at the Toll House Inn, where of course that’s where Toll House cookies came to be. Ever since then, chocolate chip cookies have become the most popular cookie in America.
I came across this art piece, “Eat Your Heart Out,” by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers, 2008. It shows a series of 4 pieces. The 4 pieces shows a giant ice cream sandwich being eaten. In the end, you just have the wrapper.
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But, Tim and Rebekah, is using this of many other art pieces to represent disconnect between our reassuring fantasies of nature and the much more alarming reality. They present sculptural installations of childhood language, such as toys. They turn the message of comfortable accommodation upside down. The use highly glazed clay, fiberglass, plastic, wood, and Styrofoam to show their fragility. Their previous works include shiny pink penguins set on eroding ceramic ice floes and inflatable plastic killer whales resting on ornamental wooden bases. They juxtapose these creatures against fabricated ice cream sandwiches, half eaten popsicle and ice cream cones. They are symbols of our mindless consumption. These sculptures show our careless disregard for nature’s fate and suggest a similarity of the way we treat our personal possessions, such as the natural world. The show is titled “All good things…,” a phrase whose unstated ending is, “must come to an end.”
So there is more to a cookie than just its taste. When you look paste it as just a dessert, you find a big representation of our consuming world. Although we have many good things in our lives, they are all being mass produced and are very harmful to our natural world. We must understand that eventually, all good things must come to an end.
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