Table Intimacies

TABLE INTIMACIES

ArtSpace Raleigh 2-31 May 2014

Statement:

A table is an ordinary object. Powerful stories are built on bedrock ordinary. 

Economic engineers today use the “kitchen table” as a metaphor to refer to the personal household economies of daily life. Without those personal efforts all of their engineering would be moot.

The dinner table, the banquet table, the conference table….all are sets and stages for stories.  The stories I want to bring to the table are those of unheralded labor – the patient toil of flax and cotton harvesters, the skill of the weaver, the woodworker, the artistry of designers, and the never-ending care and labor of those who are responsible for the food on the table.

My collaborator in this exhibit is a worm (actually lots of them), Eisenia Fetida, the red wriggler. 

Beneath our feet is a universe of soil.  Microcosms of flora and fauna tend to the richness of life. Their daily labor goes mostly unheralded.  Ordinary as dirt. 

Ann Corley Silverman

Sacred Table -

Table and Cloth -

process…..

Breakfast with Cantalope - more images and information about this piece can be found in another blog entry in 2013.  Situating Food - Food for Thought

Souls of Plants -  the brown 'lace' of the tree form is cantaloupe rind after worms had been working.