Barbed(née ARTWINDSOR), ART MEAL*, issue #02, Spring-Summer 2015
Everything I see wanna turn into something. ART MEAL is a combination of food and folklore to prompt (often uncomfortable) conversation.
ART MEAL is an invitation to break the mould. Spoil the milk. It was hand-formed when the substance was still malleable. Stained by the dirt it once grew in, it carries a distinct look, smell, and taste. A kind of confrontation between reality and perception while testing the basic physical properties of a common food substance.
Specific foods remind ART MEAL of special occasions. The nonsensical resurfacing of one seaway sized shipload of wheat. I'm a stress eater illustrated by the materials of the trade.
Though both art and food culture are prevalent in ART MEAL, there is often an esotericism that surrounds the subjects which can make their creation seem daunting.
Through humour, ART MEAL is creating not only a depiction of food, but also a deadpan allegory through which to explore aesthetic and conceptual hungers
In an attempt to accept and defend her cultural background, the artist consumes.
ART MEAL can't eat and hug at the same time.
*This editorial is a collage composed of lines from ARTWINDSOR artist statements found in this issue.
You can eat this magazine. But you probably shouldn't.
Arturo Herrera, Publisher, Editor in Chief
Jon R. Flieger, Editor
Sasha Opeiko, Art Director
lain Baxter&, Contributing Artist: &man
FEATURED
Patricia Coates (Amherstburg, ON)
lain Baxter& (Windsor, ON)
Joey Stewart & Nadja Pelkey (Windsor, ON)
Bill Law (Windsor, ON)
Kiki Athanassiadis (Windsor, ON)
James Steinhoff (London, ON)
INTERVIEWS
Pat Stevens (Windsor, ON)
Gregory Stasiak (Windsor, ON)
Veronika Mogyorody (Windsor, ON)
CONTRIBUTING
Andrea Beiko (Hamilton, ON)
Sarah Beck (Toronto, ON)
Victoria Piersig (Toronto, ON)
Rhonda Weppler (San Francisco, CA)
Dorica Manuel (Toronto, ON)
Danièle Dennis (Toronto, ON)
Christine Kirouac (Winnipeg, MB)
Karissa Sardinha (Windsor, ON)
Ufuk Gueray (Winnipeg, MB)
Walter Segers (Toronto, ON)
Forklore Project (International)
Tiffany Eng (Calgary, AB)
Matt Sabourin (Montreal, QC)
Joshua Babcock (Windsor, ON)
Kewy Janisse (Windsor, ON)
Jessica Beaulieu (Windsor, ON)