Table Setting (Schulchan Aruch)
2020
Installation
Glass, Flour, Felt, Silica, Sugar, Salt

Part of a series of work made with a combination of bread-dough and glass while a resident at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. This table features fragments of my own body: facial features, skin, genitals, fingers, and toes, as well as miscellaneous other “pieces.” Both an archeological museum display and a banquet table, their materiality fluctuates between food and object. It is a replica of my body disassembled by many different methodologies and reassembled by many different criteria. The Shulchan Aruch (lit. set table) is a book of Jewish law. It concerns itself with the social, spiritual, and bodily dimensions of religious law. Within Judaism, dietary laws enforce cosmological order by the control of the body, by bringing order to what goes in and out of the body and how the body moves through the world.