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. I wanted to make an object that could directly reference temporal dimensions.

A picnic was had by my friend Charley and I at Maria Hernandez Park. The past was the meal that was shared, tangible only by reference.




The present was the same meal preserved in resin. It is a fossil of the meal that remains as fresh (although inedible) as the day it was encased in resin. Sanded and bound by a leather cinch it is a monument to a meal that has come and gone.

The future is the ability to recreate the past. The whole meal was recorded and meticulously transcribed so that every bite, sip, and puff is accounted for by a different colored dot. I then made a chart that records each of these actions in the exact order they occurred in UMT (Coordinated Universal Time). Preserving the memory of the meal and the possibilty that one day it can be repeated.
