cuisine art
...nero su nero…
omaggio a t. monk
or perhaps it is Beuys who was criticized for
creating “ugly art” with mundane and colorless
materials who inspires me. His choices were
guided by his ideas about after-images. If you look
at a red light or image, and then close your eyes
there is an after-image in your mind’s eye that is
green, the complimentary color of red. Similarly, if
you look at one of Beuys’ works that is minimal or
gray, it is his hope that he will have also evoked
inside you a very colorful world. Several plates of
mine are monochromes, nearly disappearing into
interiors
themselves—yellow on yellow, gray on gray, white
on white—following the idea that the flavors will
come to life in the palate and stimulate the mind
