Altered Book
For this assignment, I chose the book The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella to alter. I have both loved and hated this book and I now once again love it. I think that the use of bread in the work creates quite an interesting dynamic between the viewer and the sculpture as the use of baking in this way is not very common. I could find no reference material surrounding whether or not it was safe to bake a loaf of bread in a book but I did not end up starting a fire so that's nice. I really wanted to reject the functionality of this book as it is so horribly written it shouldn't even be read so I wanted to find a different way to make it consumable. I also had the idea of rejecting the title of the book and decided to name the piece "The Domestic Goddess" speaking on the traditional roles of women in the kitchen and finding a way to destroy a book about a businesswoman who becomes domesticated throughout the story and learns life skills. I quite...