Cruelty to pies.

I've spent my morning torturing a poor pie, all in the name of art!  

Proper photos to follow soon.

Pasty Tax

Another quick editorial piece, this time in relation to the 'pasty tax' - the changes propossed in the recent budget to increase the tax on hot takeaway food such as pasties and rotisserie chickens to be in line with other takeaway foods which has caused many cries of "What if I like my steak bake cold?!".  It took some considerable restraint not to just eat the pastry (or at least the cooked pastry).

'We fed our pets better than we fed our children'

A quick editorial I done recently in response to this Guardian article about comfort food and recession by Matthew Fort (I'm sure you can use your imagination and imagine it in context).

"We fed our pets better than we fed our children"

Comfort Food - Lasagne Sleeping Bag

A gigantic lasagne (180cm x 90cm) which has been made as a sleeping bag for the ultimate in comfort.  Slip inside the bottom mincey layer and feel the full weight of the comfort on top of you.  

Made out of duvets and hand dyed fabric, a long and exhausting process!  The fabric for each layer was dyed (in a mop bucket in the bath) and then sewn around the duvets to create the different lasagne layers.  Luckily for me my sewing machine chose just this moment to break, ugh!  The mince layers have been screenprinted for maximum minceyness (after much stress about how to make it look right).

The lasagne was also taken to the doctors surgery (because nothing says nutter like turning up at the doctors with a giant lasagne) and Ben Bainbridge and Sally Hackett were good enough to get inside it for me and model its comforting potential!

Comfort Food - Penne Pasta

A large piece of hand-quilted penne pasta.  You can hug it, you can squeeze it, but you can't eat it.

Photos also taken in Hawkhill Medical Centre with Ben Bainbridge and additional Sally Hackett.

A more detailed shot taken in the photo studio but it does look a bit sad and squashed here.  Definitely better in person.