Welcome to the world’s first entirely edible garden (where the walls are made of fruit loaf and Nutella grouting)
Friday 24 Apr 2015 3:28 pm 2.4k
Yep, we can’t quite believe it’s real either (Picture: David Parry/PA) This garden took over 450 hours to bake. Yes, you did read that right. The world’s first totally edible garden opened to the public today – in London’s Russell Square – for one day only. Visitors were encouraged to help themselves to the flora and fauna, made up of Bourbon biscuit borders, chocolate crumb soil, 250 cake flowers and hundreds of chocolate pebbles. You could even lick the walls, which were built with 1,300 slices of fruit loaf and grouted with Nutella.
(Picture: David Parry/PA) The garden was conjured up by award-winning cake designer Rosalind Miller, to celebrate the launch of the paperback version of author Carole Matthews’ new novel The Cake Shop in the Garden.
(Picture: David Parry/PA) In total, the heavenly urban idyll features 15 different types of cake, including stepping stones made from Battenberg and a bird bath made from slices of Swiss roll. Even the creepy crawlies are edible.
(Picture: David Parry/PA) Carole said: ‘The garden is the place where love, life and family collide for my main character, Faye Merryweather so it was really exciting to bring it to life using cake as it features so prominently throughout the storyline. ‘It was certainly one of a kind – and where better for visitors to grab a slice of the action?’ We’re suddenly feeling very green fingered.
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- Its all responsive at the Queen of Bradgate
Itching to get started now ! SOPHIE CALLE. MODUS VIVENDI  I first became interested in Sophie Calle in my 20s (perhaps a decade ago) after my degree, when my practise was in collage- collecting documents, receipts and text surrounding various experiances and people. I moved in this direction after being involved in sound and projection & to not having the equipment initially .
David Kefford pointed me in the direction of her work. Just resently I was considering her work as an idea of mine developed in my sketch book tgat was not only site responsive but also involved people, documenting aswel as thinking of creative / situational and it reminded me to revisit her work along with a few others. I was really supprised to see her new work. Bold and strong- larger in size yet discussing again, 'the persona'l and vunrability of humans . The first part of the show was ourstandly impressive - what it means to individuals to blind. Really, really moving work. Esp her video peice. Voir la Mer 2011. "I went to Istanbul . City surrounded by water , I met people who lived tgere and had never seen the sea. I filmed tgere first time." I thought her composition and directing of this peice was very strong - I liked how tgey faced away from the camera at first - making the viewer close their own eyes or consider not seeing tgere eyes and tgem never seeing ours. We also question wether tgey can see or are they imagining tge sea with sound and force of the wind. I liked that tge whole show nearly was all in French - a reminder she is French and creates in French and I am outside England. Text translated everything well. The gallery , ( LA VIRREINA- centre de la image) was set off the promand - a stunning Building.  MACBA Amazing art gallery! Everything so welcoming text in 6-9 languages. Curation at the bestest standard. Very European with artists I've never herd of but should of herd of.    (More pictures from DSLR & notes to follow )  The Beast and the Sovereign show spoke to me the most- esp with us approaching a new election in Britain and the conversation s I'm having with my friends. "This exhibition takes it's name from the last seminar conducted by Jacques Derrida in 2002-3, in which the French philosopher analysed, the beast and the sovereign embody the two allegorical figures in politics tgat have historically existed outside of the law: the beast that is supposedly ignorant of the law and the sovereign whose power is defined precisely by the capacity to suspend the law. This divison gives rise to a series of binary oppositions in of gender, class, species, sexuality, race and disability that structure relations of dominance. On the one hand the beast as animality, nature, femininity, the south, the slave, on the other, tge sovereign representing tge human or even the super human , god, the state , masculinity , the north , the white, tge sexually normal subject"  Filmed and took pick to up load when I return. Most interesting thing I collected in the hall were the sound recordings.  Image I took in the museum of his inspiration of natural form. This structure let in a lot of light.    Atmosphere / light/ natural form / authenticity / cold exterior / crowds of respectful sound/ echos / different laugages/ learning from visual/ orchestra playing     Snake eating a frog in a well (photo of footage) COLLECTING FOOTAGE:- Snake eating a frog in a well (photos of footage on video camera)   "Humans are highly selective about what they want to find out , as if knowing what they need to know" "With smart uncertaintys in all manner of art stay with me" Taken from Lynne Tillman Essey on curiosity -'A knowing look' |
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