Your Love Is Like A Chunk of Gold (Seminola), bread, monoammonium phosphate, 30 x 20 x 15 cm, 2011
“Your Love Is Like A Chunk of Gold” is a series of bread with crystal growth. The work is a juxtaposition of the real, the supernatural and science fiction.
The bread is a familiar item, a comfort food; the spiky crystal (instead of mold) growth made it strange and treacherous — the bread with crystal growth becomes an oxymoron object of familiarity and strangeness, comfort and pain similar to experiences of love and romance.
“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.”
Jeanette Winterson
