Dedications (2010) – Art as Daily Bread

Dedications is a year-long performance structured around repetition, material transformation, and the act of offering. Milk bread dough is shaped by hand without predetermined design, guided by gesture and process. As the dough rises, expands, and is cut and modeled, it assumes female forms. Almond eyes, candied cherry mouths, and raisin details define the figures before they are baked.

Each bread sculpture functions as an offering. The works are not titled individually but catalogued as Dedication 1A, 1B / 2A, 2B, emphasizing their relational purpose rather than individual identity. Each sculpture is accompanied by a written dedication addressed to people from the artist’s daily life: a yoga teacher, a doctor, a hairdresser, a florist, close friends. These recipients become participants in the work’s completion.

The recipient is invited to eat the bread. Through consumption, the sculpture fulfills its trajectory: art becomes nourishment, entering the body and dissolving its material presence. The project thus frames sculpture as ephemeral and relational, grounded in exchange rather than permanence.

The work also acknowledges biographical reference—specifically the artist’s father, a baker—and invokes Goethe’s reflection on poetry, image, song, and the act of nourishing others.

With Dedications, art is repositioned as sustenance: a living material that rises, is offered, disappears, and persists as relational memory rather than object.