
Meech Boakye Explores the “Multispecies Collaboration” That Produces Our Food
The Canadian artist’s fare-focused experiments unpack the connections between the organisms, processes, and systems that shape what we eat.
January 12, 2022
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In Canadian artist Meech Boakye’s hands, fermented cherry and plum blossoms become leavening agents for bread, soil from their backyard transforms into clay for encasing a baked chicken, and leftovers from past meals turn into turmeric, charcoal, and purple sweet-potato crackers. While Boakye’s Instagram documentation of these culinary experiments is mesmerizing, their focus on food is about much more than aesthetics: It’s centered on unpacking the deep, abundant relationships between the processes, systems, and life forms that shape what we eat.
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