Recently, my kids asked what is my most favored of foods. After giving it some thought (sushi, RIBS, curry?)- I surprised even myself.
toast with butter
Do we all love toast? I mean a carbohydrate slightly modified with fire and some fat. I'm sold!
Then I came across this feature in designboom.com that caught my eye for several reasons. Lennie Payne is an artist that started entertaining his daughter by making art from toast. Fast forward to last month when he had his one man show at Maverick Showroom in London featuring his new art medium.
His images are cultural comments that are first burnt into the - looks like Wonder - bread. Then he carefully paints and scrapes away for various tones and imagery. After soaking them in resin- they are here for eons to come (as if the preservatives in Wonderbread weren't enough already).
I'm going to say, and Lennie would probably cringe at the comparison, that he's a bit of an Andy Warhol but with toast.
However, when cruising the art sites Lennie's works stood out for me mostly because they are so much like tiles. Toast tiles?? The fact that they are art makes for a Tile Envy trifecta.
I certainly haven't seen anything like that at Coverings. Artists and their non-tile tiles at Coverings, hmmm....
Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend. I'm having toast.