EATING PRACTICE (Current Portfolios) > Opera Di Cucina

This series of seven screen prints depict a man cooking, eating, and cleaning up after a meal in a kitchen that is both modern and old. The kitchen and its tools quote from engraved illustrations from the 16th Century Italian cookbook Opera di Bartolomeo Scappi. Scappi was the Master Chef for several popes. In my prints, Pope Francis is set in the midst of this essentially human activity and its timelessness. The seven parts explore the idea of time (seven days of a week) with the climax in the center of the sequence. The images are printed on a linen resembling a liturgical corporal linen. These simple images address the position of a leader and the future in light of inherited ideas of masculinity, service, sacrifice, temperance, and humility.

Opera di Cucina I
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina II
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina III
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina IV
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina V
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina VI
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
Opera di Cucina VII
Screenprint on embroidered fabric
20" x 20"
2016
After and Before (front)
lithograph on waxed masa paper
8" x 10"
2014
After and Before (back)
lithograph on waxed masa paper
8" x 10"
2014