CAKE-SCAPES / CAKE-SPACES
I also create cake-scapes which combine experimental gastronomy, social practice and installation as a form of liberatory world-building and performance. As viewers eat the art, they become a part of the installation as performer, thus implicated in the story, dissolving the disembodied divide between watched and watcher. They perform the cake. Similar to my other projects, the cakescapes become queered sites for political critique, radical imaginings and healing. Contact me for commissions and inquiries.
Bound together
2026
Workshop at MassArt with students in Crystal Bi’s class, “Imagining Possible Futures: Socially Engaged Art and Activism” in The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) department. Included collective reading, costume making and cakescape processional through campus.
Act I: Bound Together
Act II: In This
Act III: World
cyberhearts
2026
Materials: Chocolate cake, GF chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream, vanilla buttercream, rose saffron almond meringues, rice krispy treats, passionfruit curd, passionfruit, mojito jello-shot balls, pomelos, sumo oranges, blood oranges, raspberries, strawberries, dragonfruit, horned melon, figs, watermelons, dill, basil, mint, kiwi, Takis, Pocky Sticks, Cutie Pie conversation hearts, Nerd clusters, Swedish fish hearts, wasabi peas, ginger biscuits, rambutan, peppers, cucumbers, grapes, brie, cheddar cheese, cheeseballs, mango boba balls, chocolate hearts, Hershey kisses, crushed dried strawberry powder, dried calendula petals, dried rosebuds, golden tubing, hot pink mason string.
Of Both and
2025
Materials: Chocolate cake, GF chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream, vanilla buttercream, rose saffron almond meringues, rice krispy treats, passionfruit curd, passionfruit, watermelons, garlicscapes, basil, mint, dill, fennel fronts, red currents, cherries, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Pocky Sticks, Nerd gummy clusters, flowers, watermelon gummies, gooseberries, raspberries.
2 food buckets, 2 pieces of plywood, dolly, rubber tubing.
eye candy
2023
Materials: Chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate ganache, meringues, caramel popcorn balls, cucumber, yuzu agar balls, agar balls with luxardo cherries and Bully Boy old fashioned, mint, dill, pomegranates, sour gummies, sour gummy gel, figs, rambutan, dragonfruit, watermelon gummies, raspberries, lime curls, lemon curls, calendula petals, pine needles, gold mesh tubing
“Not Yet Here” represents the interconnectedness of our world and an architecture for a world to come. The structure will be a platform for a cakescape performance. It will speak to the ongoing struggle for liberation amidst the genocide in Palestine and necropolitics that is capitalism and racism. In an act of joy as resistance, participants complete the cakescape by gathering around the table and eating.
connect to the pickle
2024
installation + cakescape performance.
Medium: Pink, golden, blue, and grey dove oyster mushrooms, pasteurized straw, buckets, plywood boards.
Cakescape Medium: peeps, oyster mushrooms, vegan and GF cake, choc cake, buttercream frosting, rice krispy treats tower, watermelon, choc ganache, dragonfruit, walnuts, pickles, cukes, figs, raspberries, dill, cotton candy, kiwi, meringues, takis, golden tubing. Performers: gallery attendees at closing. Mushroom collaboration with Hannah Hafter.
bumpy bumps
2023
Art School Confidential series,
Masary Studios
Materials: Chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream frosting, meringues, rice krispy treats, daikon, basil, mizuna, shiso, celery, pumpkin, pumpkin greens, microgreens, mizuna, grapes, fennel, mint, dill, apples, paracress, golden cucumber, sour Mexican cucumber, flowers, amaranth, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, hummus, goat cheese, crackers, pickles, olives, figs, rambutan, pomegranates, raspberries, almonds, takis, dried rosebuds, raspberry candies, marshmallows, watermelon gummies,cheese, salami
PHOTO: Aram Boghosian
passion-fruit
druids
2024
Materials: passionfruit, vegan jello: fruit caviar, yuzu jello balls, mango jello balls, passionfruit base, raspberries, blood oranges, grapefruit, naval oranges, luxardo cherries, watermelon, dill, rosebuds, mint
garlic-scape cakescape
2023
Materials: watermelon, garlic scapes, vegan GF brownies, currants, beets, buttercream frosting, strawberry-rhubarb-raspberry puree, purple snap peas, gummy cherries, takis, wasabi peas, mint, basil, fronds of fennel.
midsummer
2023
Materials: vegan cornbread, plus loads of Northampton Western Mass delights: herbed goat cheese spread made from Reed’s goat cheese from their goat farm! Flowers from Reed’s yard! Garlic scapes for the cake scape! From Reed’s farm!! Local pickles and dillys! And of course - takis and vegan marshmallows. Plus some wasabi peas and polenta balls that look like matzo balls. 😂
squished
2023
Materials: Peeps, icing, flaming hot Cheetos, choc almond cake, watermelon sours, rice krispy treats and gold mesh tubing.
almond teeth
2023
Materials: GF choc almond cake, buttercream frosting, blueberry pea shoot powder, blueberries, calendula, rose buds, lavender buds, almond slivers, gold mesh tubing, skewers. // key ideas: the fiction of borders and binaries, transgressing the perfect; material glitche, shared ritual; joy as resistance // #queercake #queerlove #queerart #trans //