Day 2 Prompt: Culinary Arts
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tolkienekphrasisweekMandatory Art Form Prompt
Food is a fascinating junction between craft and need. Every people responds to the constant nutritional needs of the body by using the fluctuating and diverse bounty of the land and seasons around them, producing unique cuisines. History, class, religion, gender, and other facets of identity also determine what counts as food, who prepares it, what it looks like, and what it tastes like. From extravagant royal feasts with illusionistic food sculptures, to stews left by farmers to cook in the ashes and feed them at night, to aged wine and fermented chicha, through candies and breads and preserved meats, the culinary arts sustain life and ornament it. They invite us to think about the sustaining nature of art in both a metaphorical and literal sense. Those creating for this day might consider food itself, the manners involved in its consumption, the art of its preparation, and/or the dishes and utensils used to make and serve it.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Get out your egg timer! Today’s writing prompt is to write to a time limit, like a perfectly timed boiled egg. Perhaps a stream-of-consciousness five-minute ficlet, a flash poem, or an hour of intensive concentration will get the creative juices flowing.
Optional Art Method Theme
Day 2’s optional art method is the still life. Carefully arranged culinary tableaus are most familiar as paintings, but also appear in other media. Frequently highly symbolic, still lives are objects of contemplation which use food to represent philosophical or carnal messages, or sometimes just to look delicious. Try your hand at it.
Optional Pain Theme
The optional pain theme for the day is artistic ephemerality. Over long spans of time, even marble is little more enduring than a ripe fruit. Tolkien’s worlds are full of ruins and the remains of art, implying the past existence of pieces which did not persist. Today, consider the works of art that did not survive, because the island they were on got dunked in the ocean, or because they were not considered art, or at least not good art, or simply because of the passage of time.
Optional Joy Theme
For adding a dash of joy to your work for today, think bread and roses! The famous protest song juxtaposes the fundamental, prosaic meeting of physical needs with the more spiritual necessity of beauty, but sometimes the bread is a rose. In your work for the day, discuss the artistic relation between physical sustenance and spiritual nourishment.
A number of examples for your inspiration.
Food is a fascinating junction between craft and need. Every people responds to the constant nutritional needs of the body by using the fluctuating and diverse bounty of the land and seasons around them, producing unique cuisines. History, class, religion, gender, and other facets of identity also determine what counts as food, who prepares it, what it looks like, and what it tastes like. From extravagant royal feasts with illusionistic food sculptures, to stews left by farmers to cook in the ashes and feed them at night, to aged wine and fermented chicha, through candies and breads and preserved meats, the culinary arts sustain life and ornament it. They invite us to think about the sustaining nature of art in both a metaphorical and literal sense. Those creating for this day might consider food itself, the manners involved in its consumption, the art of its preparation, and/or the dishes and utensils used to make and serve it.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Get out your egg timer! Today’s writing prompt is to write to a time limit, like a perfectly timed boiled egg. Perhaps a stream-of-consciousness five-minute ficlet, a flash poem, or an hour of intensive concentration will get the creative juices flowing.
Optional Art Method Theme
Day 2’s optional art method is the still life. Carefully arranged culinary tableaus are most familiar as paintings, but also appear in other media. Frequently highly symbolic, still lives are objects of contemplation which use food to represent philosophical or carnal messages, or sometimes just to look delicious. Try your hand at it.
Optional Pain Theme
The optional pain theme for the day is artistic ephemerality. Over long spans of time, even marble is little more enduring than a ripe fruit. Tolkien’s worlds are full of ruins and the remains of art, implying the past existence of pieces which did not persist. Today, consider the works of art that did not survive, because the island they were on got dunked in the ocean, or because they were not considered art, or at least not good art, or simply because of the passage of time.
Optional Joy Theme
For adding a dash of joy to your work for today, think bread and roses! The famous protest song juxtaposes the fundamental, prosaic meeting of physical needs with the more spiritual necessity of beauty, but sometimes the bread is a rose. In your work for the day, discuss the artistic relation between physical sustenance and spiritual nourishment.
A number of examples for your inspiration.
