Food Bead Maze Table

Food Bead Maze Table, 2022, Sugar, mugwort, black sesame cookies, soft pretzels, sesame seed-adorned bagels and bead-embroidered eggs, steel, wood, and cotton

Inspired by the familiar bead maze tables often found in doctor’s office waiting rooms, I created a dinner table of “food beads” that invites play. Exploring the intersections of food, craft, and art, I transformed edible items into bead-like forms, including bagels, cookies, ribbon-shaped pretzels, and embroidered eggs, reimagining them as both objects of play and labor-intensive crafts. Viewers were encouraged to interact with the table, blurring the line between what is edible and inedible, functional and sculptural. I am drawn to the absurdity and delight of playing with food, an act typically discouraged, and the parallel between craft and cooking, where care and labor culminate in something meant to be consumed.