Food Studies Matter, Meaning, Movement Creative Form and Matter, Annika Walsh

CREATIVE FORM AND MATTER ANNIKA WALSH FROM HEAD TO DOUGH Annika Walsh is a artist who was born in , China and adopted at 11 months of age by in Canada . She works with a variety of ingredients , materials , and collaborators to form her conceptual pieces . Her practice exploration identity to participatory food performances , and everything in between . Striving to blur the lines and push the boundaries , Annika makes a habit of ing many disciplines , including sculptural installation , mance , and media . FROM HEAD TO DOUGH ( 2020 ) From Head to Dough is a work . Starting with a simple dough , I rolled it out into a large oval , then ANNIKA WALSH 361

cut it into the shape of Province . I then stamped one of my Chinese names , on the location of , the city I was born in . I made some score lines where the river runs through the province and put tinfoil underneath to mould mountain ranges . is known for their mountain for me , it was important to represent the terrain , because I resonate so much with this type of landscape in the Canadian Rockies . Then I let the dough dry for three days on my kitchen island , where it cracked into many uncontrollable pieces , one being the line of the River . Form was the word prompt I used to create this project . By allowing the dough to take on its own natural form , after some manipulation at the beginning , I was able to highlight how the materiality of the dough interacts with elements such as heat , air , and time . When I decided it was done drying , I it over attached broken piece some of the pieces back together and create three larger segments . I then hung each segment separately onto the wall , as I would a canvas . I then garnished it with a bit of gesso and ( red chili paste ) The visual simplicity makes of this piece allows viewers to concentrate more on the individual ingredients . 362 FORM AND MATTER

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