Communion is an ongoing meal and installation-based series that picks up where my earlier installation The Kitchen Tables (2024) left off, in which I make dinners for people, serving recipes of significance that I have collected from friends and family over the years. Using vegetable scraps from these dinners and boiling them into fabric dyes, I have begun to dye my own fabric for the tablecloths used to cover the Communion dinner tables. Similarly to Breaking Bread, this meal installation offers a moment of pause to reconnect with our bodies and with each other. It also offers a space for reflection and conversation with my guests about the ideas I am grappling with in regards to decolonial aesthesis and working with mending as a methodology. Depicted above are two tablecloths, one dyed with scraps of yellow onion skins, and one dyed with red wine. Other dyes and tablecloths include those made with acorns, avocado pips and skins, tumeric, and black beans.
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