May 2010, pages from a second hand recipe book
detail from May 2010
| There is something charming about old recipe books, with the brown edged paper and slightly retro table settings. I like finding out about the ‘fashionable’ dishes of the time too. May 2010 work used both the photographic image and the recipe page from a second hand Japanese recipe book which was published in 1975. It is interesting to think that my own mother would have been in her late 20s with two young children to look after when the book was published. The little stain I added to the current work is not of soil but more of age or history. The translucent glassine paper acting as an extra layer, like skin, to the decorative paperwork. My mother is 71 this year. I have been fed by her many dishes which has, and is, creating history in my body and soul. | 
'Stain', pages from a second hand recipe book, glassine paper, watercolour, PVA glue, thread, 12 February 2014
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