"Adopted"
February 4, 2011
Ingredients:
Tuna salad
Mixed greens
Cottage cheese
Cucumber
Green olives in two sizes
Sliced beets
Tuna salad
Mixed greens
Cottage cheese
Cucumber
Green olives in two sizes
Sliced beets
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Friday, February 4, 2011
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Pareidolia Project Day 23
"If you gaze too long into an abyss..."
"...the abyss will gaze back into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Tuna Salad Abyss"
January 18, 2011
Ingredients:
Tuna salad. Included jalapeno, lemon pepper sauce, onion and cucumber
Tomato
Cucumber
Swiss cheese singles
Chopped black olive
Mixed greens
Kosher dill pickle
Tuna salad. Included jalapeno, lemon pepper sauce, onion and cucumber
Tomato
Cucumber
Swiss cheese singles
Chopped black olive
Mixed greens
Kosher dill pickle
Now I was starting to experiment more with the art. She noticed faces again, but no context.
This is one of my favorites because of some of the negative colors as well as the concept of mirror agnosia. Her food was no longer staring at her, it was staring at itself and not understanding what it was seeing. Deep, huh?
Pareidolia Project Day 16
"Pac-Man on Cottage Cheese"
January 10, 2011
January 10, 2011
Ingredients:
Tuna fish on very large, thick bread. This factor seems to outweigh the previous policy.
Cottage cheese
Tomato
Pearl onion
Pepperoncini with chopped black olive
She didn't notice this. Pop culture is of no interest to my mom. I think that's why she hates Family Guy so much.
Tuna fish on very large, thick bread. This factor seems to outweigh the previous policy.
Cottage cheese
Tomato
Pearl onion
Pepperoncini with chopped black olive
She didn't notice this. Pop culture is of no interest to my mom. I think that's why she hates Family Guy so much.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Pareidolia Project Day 12
"Tuna Muppet is Dismayed by Cottage Cheese Volcano"
January 6, 2011
Ingredients:
Tuna fish mix*
White bread
Cottage cheese
Kosher dill pickle
Pearl onion (with a bit of chopped black olive for the eye)
*This changes frequently, but can typically include any combination of the following: mayonnaise, sour cream, yellow and/or whole grain mustard, kosher dill pickle, jalapeno, pearl onion, hard-boiled egg, black olive, wasabai sauce, white or green onion, cranberries, etc. It may be safe to say I have not made tuna fish twice the same way in a long time. Choose your own tuna recipe.
Tuna fish mix*
White bread
Cottage cheese
Kosher dill pickle
Pearl onion (with a bit of chopped black olive for the eye)
*This changes frequently, but can typically include any combination of the following: mayonnaise, sour cream, yellow and/or whole grain mustard, kosher dill pickle, jalapeno, pearl onion, hard-boiled egg, black olive, wasabai sauce, white or green onion, cranberries, etc. It may be safe to say I have not made tuna fish twice the same way in a long time. Choose your own tuna recipe.
So, my mom has this policy whenever she makes tuna fish. She will make a sandwich and a half for me every time she makes me a tuna sandwich. One time, I made the mistake of making only one sandwich for her. It was on very large bread, but she did seem to want to nitpick it. This policy does not apply to other sandwiches, just tuna.
I was trying to decide what to do with a plate full of tuna sandwich halves, when I remembered something somebody had said about doing a face in profile. I thought that was a great idea, so this was my first attempt at doing so. I had questions as to what to do with the pickle. I considered making the sandwich look like Gonzo, but I reconsidered.
Due to the items I use mostly taking the form of googly eyes, I frequently refer to the representatives in the food as "muppets".
Pareidolia Project Day 8
"Tuna Salad Kitty"
January 2, 2011
Ingredients:
Tuna
Cottage cheese
Tomato
Jalapeno
Onion
Wasabi
Mixed greens
Lemon juice
She saw the face in this one again. She didn't see a cat, but she did see a face. I was still determining if I should try and become more subtle or if I should remain conspicuous. I decided I would make the food first, and then I would form the object around what I had.
The food before me had to define the images. My first objective is and has always been to make the food taste good. Whether the images came out subtle or bold depended on how good the food was to begin with. The objectives had begun to become interesting.
Tuna
Cottage cheese
Tomato
Jalapeno
Onion
Wasabi
Mixed greens
Lemon juice
She saw the face in this one again. She didn't see a cat, but she did see a face. I was still determining if I should try and become more subtle or if I should remain conspicuous. I decided I would make the food first, and then I would form the object around what I had.
The food before me had to define the images. My first objective is and has always been to make the food taste good. Whether the images came out subtle or bold depended on how good the food was to begin with. The objectives had begun to become interesting.
The passive-agression took over.
Untitled.
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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