June, between the "Lines"
in collaboration with
Maggie J. Whitten henry
PEI-based visual artist
Before my baker's career, since I was a kid my first passion was (and forever will be) art history. I had the immense privilege of studying Art History in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Florence, where I was born. Growing up surrounded by art, and beauty, and culture in a millennia-old-city, made me naturally fall in love with this all. And still nowadays fuels my curiosity and remains the background for all my baking experiments. Because after all, isn't food just another form of art?
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While in the recent years I dedicated myself to learn what in Italy we call 'the Arte Bianca' (white art - the craft from the colour of flour), art and contemporary art still fascinate me. After long chats with Maggie, a PEI-based artist, it felt so natural to join our forces and work on this collab.
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Maggie J. Whitten Henry (she/her) is a visual artist who particularly enjoys exploring textile tradition through a combination of physical and digital media, and the entangled relations that emerge through intuitive practice.
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For the month of June, she's going to have a pop-up studio up the road at 94 Water street, she will be exploring the concept of "lines" in textile artwork, particularly patchwork and quilting. As an added layer, she will be taking inspiration from the colour scheme of "climate stripes" and thinking about the consequences of what those colours and lines represent. She's going to be creating a large textile installation artwork and also, with your help, a community quilt artwork made up of blocks created and stitched by visitor to the studio!
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Through our weekly menu, we are going to reimagine Maggie's artworks and project. We are going to get inspiration from the idea of lines and the concept of "climate stripes", a location-based data representation of the average temperature in a given time frame. We'll be exploring the concept of how rapidly our planet is heating, year by year. From colder to warmer colours, interlaced patterns, cool and hot flavours: stay tuned for what's next!