Yesterday, I had the pleasure of going into a classroom to give a lecture about Eating Design. I collaborated with the professor in creating a wacky, zany, and definitely strange still life for her class to draw! It was a ton of fun. The concept was to modernize the still life. Her class has been looking at historic dutch still life’s, many of which incorporate food. So we modernized the food still life with an eating design twist. The day before, I had made long baguettes, ginger cookies, apple muffins, and molasses muffins to incorporate. These were foods made with ingredients that I had around–another important aspect for this project. Something that this particular class has been focusing on all semester is using what they have, re-looking at what already surrounds them, and re-appreciating what they currently possess. This theme was prevalent in the still life because nothing used was bought, it was collected from around the school and our homes.
Throughout the class, the students were given timed segments to draw what they saw. Then, they were to come up to the still life and take some of the food to eat. This constantly changed what they were drawing, forcing them to think abstractly and use their erasers a ton! Eating, incorporated into drawing, incorporated into a still life, it was really neat to see in action. The students did an incredible job keeping up with both their drawings and the eating 
. I was very glad to do it!
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