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December 25, 2010. Day 1
Ingredients:
Tuna fish
balsamic and lemon pepper seasoning
tomato
cottage cheese
mixed greens.
green olives for the eyes,
pearl onion for the nose
pepperoncini for the mouth
Every day, I make my mom lunch. I ask her what she would like, and she always responds the same way. "Whatever you feel like making." She does this to be polite, and I appreciate that, but she has a choice. She doesn't like to make choices. I told her that when she goes into a restaurant, you don't have the option to tell the server to bring you whatever the cook feels like making. Sometimes when I ask her what she would like and I made whatever I felt like making, she was disapproving. This is why I give her a choice. One day, she refused to make this choice and I "felt like making" food that was staring at her. I wanted to see if she would notice.
This is my ongoing project. Some days, she notices the faces and objects, other days she does not. I try to gauge her reaction each day. The notion that the human brain is hardwired to recognize faces or objects in otherwise meaningless objects, such as clouds is known as pareidolia. It's a trigger in imagination and possibly a primal cause of such human developments as religion.
This is my mom's food pareidolia project. It is the first project I will be posting on this blog.
Tuna fish
balsamic and lemon pepper seasoning
tomato
cottage cheese
mixed greens.
green olives for the eyes,
pearl onion for the nose
pepperoncini for the mouth
Every day, I make my mom lunch. I ask her what she would like, and she always responds the same way. "Whatever you feel like making." She does this to be polite, and I appreciate that, but she has a choice. She doesn't like to make choices. I told her that when she goes into a restaurant, you don't have the option to tell the server to bring you whatever the cook feels like making. Sometimes when I ask her what she would like and I made whatever I felt like making, she was disapproving. This is why I give her a choice. One day, she refused to make this choice and I "felt like making" food that was staring at her. I wanted to see if she would notice.
This is my ongoing project. Some days, she notices the faces and objects, other days she does not. I try to gauge her reaction each day. The notion that the human brain is hardwired to recognize faces or objects in otherwise meaningless objects, such as clouds is known as pareidolia. It's a trigger in imagination and possibly a primal cause of such human developments as religion.
This is my mom's food pareidolia project. It is the first project I will be posting on this blog.
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