Picnic 2022, prosciutto, beer, cheese, grapes, caper berries, cotton, tobacco, crackers, Corelle plates, Bic lighter, resin
Tasked with creating a portable picnic for two in Allen Wexler's Design studio class I set out to capture three moments in time. The past was the meal that my friend Charley and I shared in the park. The entire meal was recorded on camera and meticulously transcribed and timestamped.
The present was the same meal preserved in resin, a fossil of the meal that remains as fresh (although inedible) as the day it was encased. Sanded and bound by a leather cinch it is a monument to a meal that has come and gone.
And the future, an infographic depicting the recorded meal down to the individual bite, sip, and puff. Reproducible and able to be performed again in the future.
