Projects > Slant Step

Merry Christmas
Fruit cake, Fondant, Royal Icing, Masonite, Plywood, Food-grade Foil.
17"x10"x10"
2012
Merry Christmas
Fruit Cake, Fondant, Royal Icing, Masonite, Plywood, Food-grade Foil.
17"x10"x10"
2012
Merry Christmas, detail
Fruit Cake, Fondant, Royal Icing, Masonite, Plywood, Food-grade Foil.
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In 2012 I was asked to contribute to the exhibition Flatlanders on the Slant curated by Joy Bertinuson and Renny Pritikin. The prompt for the project was to create a work inspired by the Slant Step in the medium of our choice. After much consideration and consternation I determined that the only way to best render a purposeless art object was through a useless food product i.e. fruit cake. In the end I made two 'steps' one for display and one to serve at the reception. The rest is history....