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Well! Now that I am finally done this project and I have finally slept I think it's about time to share it with you!

I have been cooking up something yummy!



These 5 wheels of cheese (and the other foods shown under the cut) are headed to a show in Baltimore, Maryland. The show opens with a reception on July 9th from 7-10pm at Current Space Gallery as part of  as part of the Artscape festival!!!! I hope it's ok to promo the show. I am just so excited and I don't know a single person in that state. I've never even been to America!

* I also posted this entry to crochetcrochet . I hope it doesn't bother too many people as it may show up in their friends page twice.



The show is called C-A-R-T and here is the official blurb about the exhibition.

The average American makes two trips to buy groceries each week, making supermarkets, mini-marts, and corner stores essential and incredibly influential parts of our everyday lives. All items are bought and sold at these stores using money. Money is earned through labor, and labor comes in countless different packages, much like our food. Through our labor we are inspired and we are exploited. We progress and we are repressed. We survive.
Art is created through labor, but unlike some of the more negative forms labor takes, art stimulates our minds, challenges our imaginations, and expands our vision for the world. Art is at the center of humanity’s continuous evolution, but it remains extraordinarily undervalued by mainstream American society, which is almost solely focused on the seemingly endless cycle of labor and consumption. This limited view of life is slowly eliminating our ability to imagine, dream and think freely.

Through C A R T, Current Space is positing that art is not optional, but essential. It affects all of us internally, whether we are aware of it or not, and it should therefore be considered as fundamental to our daily lives as the products we purchase at grocery stores every week. Therefore, Current Space will be transformed into a fully functional mini-supermarket, complete with aisles, window displays, shopping baskets, and cash registers in an attempt to explore the exchange of artists’ labor for profit in a familiar, everyday setting.


Fancy cheese


Little pile of baguettes


Bread!


Bunch of grapes


Carton of eggs


Egg


Raw steak


Look at that sexy sexy rind!


The opening is Saturday July 9th from 7- 10 pm. If you are in the area you should take a trip to the market! There are going to be so many other things there and I am super sad that I can't go myself. I've never been to America!

All the patterns are of my own design and making and (so far) only exist in my head. Lately, I have been keeping busy with lots of other things and it felt really good to get back to crochet. Too bad summer is so hot. Really doesn't inspire a person to cover their lap in yarn!

Anyway, thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!