SATURDAYS

Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea

October 2023 - November 2023

I have a strong spiritual relationship with food. In my family, we express everything through what we cook. We ascribe to…for every human emotion there is a meal. So, there's food for loss-Edible Arrangements and there's food for birth-bagels with the works. I'm the chef (short order cook) in our house, and so part of the way that I express love is through food. Pancakes on Saturdays are statements. They are my way of saying "yes" "I love you" "I would do anything for you.”

In Saturdays time is both progressing and repeating. There is a clear order to the recipe but an atemporal looping experience to the ritual. Pancakes are my family’s weekly markers of Saturday mornings. They are also one of my spiritual touchstones, if you’re into that kind of thing. My fantasy of heaven, which probably ain’t happening, is a big long outdoor table filled with home cooking and surrounded by my people. I hope that Saturdays inspires a more metaphysical conversation about family, memory, and the humble act of preparing a meal for a loved one.