Judith Allen /
Jeff Badger /
Lydia Badger /
Melinda Barnes /
Lucinda Bliss /
Allison Cooke Brown /
Eirene Efstathiou /
Richard Hutchins /
Barak Levi Olins /
Rebecca FitzPatrick /
Yeshe Parks /
Sean Foley /
Alex Sax /
Sage Lewis /
Aaron T Stephan /
Sam Van Aken /
Barak Levi Olins
I am a bread-baker by trade. My artwork derives from an unsettling recognition that my wood-fired brick oven is in many ways indistinguishable from the crematoria of Auschwitz and that I have, strangely,found myself working next to a machine that so closely resembles an icon of vast destruction. What would it mean to bake bread in these ovens? How might I consider the space and slippage
between life-providing and life-reducing in such machinery? And further, how does the mechanics of memory and its inevitable blurring and compression with the present, further complicate this quandary? I like that this remains unsettled, that it offers and maybe even insists on its own questioning.
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