See more food photo compositions at Meeta K. Wolff.
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Food Art: Still Life with Bread and Bowl of Fruit, by Travis Schlaht
Food Art: Still Life with Bread and Bowl of Fruit, painting by Travis Schlaht, contemporary. You can see more of Travis’ work at The Hidden Place.
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Food Art: Still Life with Silver Fork, Dark Chocolate, and Red Flower, food photography by Giuseppe Bognanni
Photo courtesy of 35 Examples of Still Life Photography.
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The Mama Posts: Reflections on My Mother, January 15, 2013
by Jonell Galloway
My mother saw the world through beauty until she went blind seven years ago.
Will the metronome stop suddenly, will my fingers stop playing, frozen in their accustomed position, no longer able to stroke the keys to the rhythm of life? Will the angels stop singing?
When she goes, will I ride through life without a song? Will all the music stop? Will I still be able to keep a beat, listen to Horowitz in the same way? Every time I hear a hymn, will I remember her beautiful alto voice as my grandmother played her upright piano and the extended family sang shape-note hymns in harmony on a Sunday afternoon after church?
Will I cry every time I hear or read Whitman or Longfellow, or the many poems she knows by heart and can still recite? Will poetry ever be the same, or will it too lose its capacity to take me into its arms and soothe the day’s wounds?
Will I look at a painting, a quilt, a piece of art, and still perceive its beauty? Will visual beauty have the same all-encompassing, skip-a-breath effect it has now, or will it become cerebral and dull?
Every quilt she made was an objet d’art. Will quilts all be beautiful, or will they take on an unforeseen ugliness, forever bringing my mother back to life like a dagger through my heart? Quilts will become like life — pieces patched together however the quilter can, using whatever is available; living life with whatever, however it takes to survive — not art. Or will they? Perhaps that’s what art is, and not some planned and orderly activity. It’s about putting the chaos into some form that is aesthetic, pleasing, and has an important message.
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The Mama Posts: Reflections on my Mother, January 8, 2013
Mama went blind nearly 7 years ago due to an autoimmune disease called “temporal arteritis.” For a quilt artist and designer, a woman who expressed herself through images rather than words, there could have been nothing more devastating. She felt her life had ended and didn’t want to go on. We tried to give her bits of cloth, yarn, ribbon, wire, etc., in hopes she’d learn a new way of making sculptures or sewing patchworks in some crazy, original way using her fingers to feel her way around, but she couldn’t even see what she’d made, so it was of no interest to her. She would usually try for only a very few minutes and then throw it into the air in anger. She listens to audio books; her caregivers sing with her, read to her, play music for her – all things she loves — but she has lived in deep discontent because she has lost her most precious sense. Now she is physically diminished because of the disease, and speaks in the King James Version all the daylong. “Dear Lord,” she says, “let me go home,” where I will be able to see (I add).
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Food Art: Bread Pot, food photography by Sandeea
Sandeea is our latest food photography discovery. A woman of many talents, she is also author of the Food Play column. She writes in both English and Spanish and runs the Spanish food blog La Receta de la Felicidad.
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Food Art from Simple Sustenance: Brussels Sprouts, a food photography exhibit
by Renu Chhabra
All the gifts are nothing. Money gets used up. Clothes you rip up. Toys get broken up. But a good meal, that stays in your memory. From there it doesn’t get lost like other gifts. The body it leaves fast, but the memory slow.–Meir Shalev
Brussels sprouts, the tiny cabbage-like vegetable!
We all know what they are. Right? The ones that show up at the holiday table among other delicious and indulgent dishes. Some of us wonder why are they here when we have so many other goodies to enjoy.
Yes, it’s our love hate relationship with brussels sprouts.
But they come to us with good intentions and mean well for our health.
Brussels sprouts are from cruciferous family of vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, and bok choy, known for several health benefits. These vegetables are big players in cancer prevention and lowering cardiovascular risks. And brussels sprouts are the proud members of this respectable family.
Give them a little love and they will treat you well.
Enjoy this simple recipe with choice of your favorite flavors and garnish.
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Food Art: Doughnut Composition, food photography Sukaina Rajabali
Introducing our latest food photography discovery from Dubai!
Sukaina is a Dubai-based food photographer and writer. She authors the blog Sips and Spoonfuls. The blog is a compilation of generations of recipes, tales of her family and childhood, as well as the labours of her passion to learn food photography. It is filled with beautiful memories, beautiful meals and beautiful images.
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Food Art: Vineyards in B&W 3, food photography by Rosa Mayland
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This is the third in a series of B&W vineyard photographs by Rosa Mayland, author of our column Rosa’s Musings. She also runs a popular food blog, RosasYummyYums.
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