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Chef Tao
Elinor Palma Dandrea
Having a son whose poetry is largely based on the "string theroy", I designed this sculpture around his character "Chef Tao"!
It's entirely made from embroidery threads wrapped around wire frames and his face is made of polymer clay. Two chop sticks hold a paper which has his poem "Kitchen" written on it...it goes like this:
Chef Tao takes dough to a marble slab beside an unassuming bowl of rice flour.
A hand pinches;dough and marble are dusted.
Fingers magic forms a snake, with tail in left hand and head in right, pale tan begins to swing- a jump rope in the park,
it's shadow mirrors it's motion over Chef Tao's clean whites.
Hands join dough head high in space.
The left releases
momentum carries through system and ends in a braid.
Return to flour and stone to jump rope to braid over shadow over whites back to flour.
Pull gently spin wisely continue to stretch and grow.
What was one forms another, as it doubles back on itself.
As Chef Tao sings softly of longevity to a spiral world of innumerable noodles.
More spell than recipe;
if one considers the ingredients.
Flour, water air, motion, time, patience, and Chef Tao, all twist into a bounty of strands.
Boiled and consumed, to writhe in other stranded systems, assuring continuance, expansion and nourishment.
Poem by Devin D'Andrea
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