Laura Naylor

Detritus

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©2010 Laura Naylor. All rights reserved.

Artist's Statement

Eating and the social rituals associated with our feeding patterns have an important role in human culture and history. Cuisine is a uniquely human endeavor that connects our collective past with our present. The contrasts and continuity of food preparation have always been of interest to me. The manner in which different cultures prepare and consume food, to me, has always represented a visceral expression of the values and mores of the greater society in which we live.

With the turn of the millennium the slow food movement has drawn attention to the importance of the quality of foods we consume and the amount of time invested in its preparation; something many of us in this contemporary, accelerated-access-to-information, micro-waved society have either moved away from, forgotten entirely or simply never learned. My objective is for my prints to provoke thought about the significance of the seemingly mundane tasks and ingredients that were once so common in the kitchen. Similar to the preparation of many traditional dishes, printmakings, mezzotints in particular, consist of a series of deliberate sequential steps requiring meticulous attention to detail and are impossible to rush.