Daily Poetics

Wine is bottled poetry.

Link: Buccella Wines :: Registration.

Title Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou callest new flowers to birth.

Link: Choi's Blend - Food_drink - Wallpaper.com - International Design Interiors Fashion Travel.

"The fragrant bulbs, pearls and leaves of ChoiTime teas make for fabulous perfumed refreshment, but for Hong Kong-born Melissa Choi they are, more importantly, the secret to her clear-toned skin, steady weight and generally healthy constitution. The teas are made from white needle green tea, and are naturally scented and hand-woven with exotic flowers. " -wallpaper

Title Quote: Schiller

Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet!

Link: Edible - 24 KARAT GOLD LOLLIPOP.

Pearl Lollipops

"Pearl lollipops are made from, raw cane sugar, wild Madagascan vanilla
essence, and ground natural pearls. The lollipop is best shared between
lovers or given to an admired one!

Since ancient times in china and japan, pearls have been used in child bearing rituals and foods were often decorated with tiny pearls, which were to be eaten in order to secure a pregnancy prior to sex."

24K Gold Lollipop

"This Lollipop is the ultimate extravagance, for those who have everything.

This Lollipop is made by hand with genuine 24 Karat Californian Gold Flakes. Gold is said to contain various anti-bacterial properties when consumed."

Title Quote: Swinburne

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Link: Sarah Magid * Golden Tweenkees * Custom Organic Cake.

Title Quote: Henry Miller

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Link: Katja Gruijters Fooddesign.via ID Magazine

"When it comes to food and drink, Katja Gruijters has a strong intuition. She was one of the first food designers in the Netherlands. She really set the stage for an industry that is now booming. Her fascination for the world and its inhabitants helps her to break patterns. She shakes things up and shows you what you haven’t seen.
 
    Katja turns her findings into powerful product concepts with huge potential.
 
A vision is one thing. Putting it into practice is another. How can we develop products that appeal to people’s desires? Katja Gruijters thinks there is just one answer: sensological © product development...

A combination of sense and technological. This is how Katja describes her unique way of working. And the ‘sense’ experiment is absolutely vital. What does a product or ingredient do to our senses? Does it appeal to basic human desires?

Technology – industrial production processes – that’s the other side of the story. It’s the tension between these two that gives interesting results..." -Katja Gruijters Fooddesign

Quote:  Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

What precious drops are those Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew? -john dryden

Link: Nadine Jarvis | projects.

"Priceless Ring made from sugar. A treasured object made from a non-precious material."

sweet residue

Link: :: candy drawings :: rachel beth egenhoefer ::. candy residue on paper

"The mythic power of the grid is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism, science, or logistics, while at the same time providing us a release into belief, illusion, or fiction. The grid uses its’ materialism as a way to represent relationship, as the body uses its’ container to discuss mind. For inside the body, the body is seen as other to self; like information systems, the other, the mind, is immaterial.

Objects make our insecurities about these intangibles comfortable. They assure our thresholds of belief and decision to trust in these cyclical information systems whether digital, analog, emotional, physiological, or spiritual. Conscious or unconscious, the algorithmic movement of our bodies interacting with machines negotiates a space between. This molded space of negotiation functions in the cyclical as does our sprit, mind, machine, and grid.

Candy becomes an ideal medium to discuss that which is intangible, to represent that which does not physically exist in a form which evokes all the senses. Able to not just see and touch, but also hear, and smell; leading to the ultimate desire of taste and therefore consumption. Candy in every state of its process is temporal. Fluxuating in the threshold of temperature candy reaches it’s ideal state to harden. Only to change again, melting down with the atmospheric influences. And changing again with it’s desirable consumption. It’s being exists as a tangible representation of emotional Ferris wheels.

Textiles share obvious historical connections to technology, its object oriented process serving as the blue print for the immaterial processing of computing. They also share a constructional make-up that interests me more. Knitting together codes of base-two patterns- knits and purls, zeros and ones. Cloth provides the comfort and security of an object. It is tangible code we can see and understand, while giving us the same comfort as our own clothing accessorizing out bodies.

Tying together the processes and objects of my work is the circular looped motion that constructs our actions, desires, and movements. The cycles of analog to digital information pulsating up and down a wave of electricity. The obvious cycles of the body’s hunger and fulfillment intertwined with cycles of digestion. The motion of two hands knitting a string of yarn into cloth. The motion of our bodies interacting with machines, tensing and relaxing as we negotiate in the space between. Digital information plots points for electricity to flow through. Textile patterns plot the construction of cloth. While plotting points, like the grid, order is pure relationship, a relationship of a spinning Ferris wheel.

Placing lollipops in a grid, the temporal will prevail- they will melt, and the thus the grid. Our attempts to plateau these cycles never succeed beyond leaving a residue of that point in time." -rbe

The Ornamented Life

Link: The Ornamented Life - FLORAL CAKE MOLDS.

FLORAL CAKE MOLD

"A freshly baked cake evokes in us so much more than its humble presence would suggest. It is actually a combination of all of our senses which gives the form of the piece of cake offered to us: the sweet vanilla aroma, the soft crumbly warmth, the faint memory which doesn’t quite materialize, but nevertheless infuses us with a feeling of goodness.

Whereas it can be said that all food can act like this to some degree, there is no other food which has more symbolic and universal power than a basic cake (aside from bread, but that is a different story). It has the right balance between ordinary and special: we don’t eat cake everyday, but it’s always there to celebrate an occasion. The actual baking of the cake mirrors this relationship: it is neither difficult nor expensive; all it requires is the cook’s care and attention. These values are impossible to buy and they define the difference between a home-made and shop-bought cake.
The home-baked cake is accompanied by other attributes which often contribute (and acquire) a dear quality: an embroidered tablecloth, the hand-painted china, the glinting silverware – a whole army is brought out to fight for the same purpose.

The Floral Cake Molds are created in recognition and celebration of this ritual. The material, earthenware, is chosen for its universal humbleness and familiarity – it is the most basic of materials, terracotta literally meaning “cooked earth.” So many basics are made from it (bricks, flower pots), and in many an archeological museum a rudimentary cake mold will be seen as one of the very first utensils created and used by many a culture.

The shapes of the molds are chosen for their archetypal qualities. They are also the most basic of units: a stem, a bud, a leaf, and a flower. And yet, so much beauty has been created with these few basic elements – the entire gamut of the natural world, the countless floral patterns in the Applied Arts, and so much in the Fine-Arts.

When cake is baked in these molds, the resulting cake-units can be arranged in an endless variety of ways, giving the cake itself decorative power. It becomes independent of nice table-cloth or –ware in order to bring out the full experience since the cake itself becomes the decoration, and therefore the undistracted focus of attention.
The Floral Cake Molds are cooked modeled earth to provide the ultimate “goodness of the earth” produce!"

 

Link: Lovescool - For the Love of Dessert » Blog Archive » Tasty Lace.

"Dutch artist and food designer Katja Gruijters doesn’t feel her work is complete until it’s eaten. Her “Tasty Lace” exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design will be an audience-participation event. “Newly designed tiles in white, bittersweet, and milk chocolate, sugar, genoise, shortbread, winegums, and brownies will be presented as a patchwork installation piece. Visitors will be invited to break, cut and tear apart the work of art, then consume it.” Tea, donated by The Shaded Leaf, will be served to help digest the work. Reservations are required for this unusual feast."

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning . . . -Robert Ludlum

Link: Margaret Braun. cake '1,000 explosions'

"Margaret Braun - Author of Cakewalk (Rizzoli), is a Sugar Artist who has redefined the art of cake decorating. Internationally renowned for her distinctive, boundary breaking style which fuses food and the fine arts, Margaret has influenced and inspired dessert and design enthusiast for years. At the same time, her emphasis on classical technique places her in the realm of genuine artisans from centuries past. Born in New York to a family of musicians and food lovers, Margaret spent the better part of her early life drawing on napkins, jeans, shoes, desks, and walls, until she found her self in a pastry kitchen where she began drawing on cakes. Then she discovered food coloring and from that moment on Margaret went on to create some of the most beautiful and delicious edible creations ever seen. Margaret loves what she does and her fantastic creations have been featured extensively in print, TV, radio, and in motion pictures."