Moon Governs Moisture
Collab with Sankrit Kulmanochawong and Earthcraft
Inspired in the work of Marwa Arsanios
Inspired by Marwa Arsanios' film highlighting the Indigenous farming methods that rely on the Moon, and by the concept of biodynamics farming and its relationship to celestial bodies, and on the footsteps of Mayis' grandmother Emine who had her own methods of communicating with her hazel orchard & learning through them how much nuts they would be gifted that season by those unpredictable friends; the intervention centers the Moon and the cosmic energies that reflect and connect to our soils.
Under a Moon in its Last Quarter phase;
A table set up with 12 bamboo steamers, an ode to 12 sections of the sky with its signs.
In the steamers are mantı, a moist Turkish meal, eaten with butter tomato sauce and garlic yoghurt; a common food for the Ramadan time: a Moon holiday, called "the sultan of the 11 moons".
The towering steamers recalling the plant stems going high, fast, encouraged by the pull of the Moon.
Shredded vegetables alluding to the roots; roots always finding their way towards the gravity. Potatoes and tangy peppers in vinegary strips.
Corn, garden peas, olives as dots lining up celestial symbols.
Blooming wild garlic, leaf and stem. Both fresh and pickled into white kimchi.
Sponge mushrooms, moist and big.
Oceany seaweed salad. Leafy greens, strips of leek, radicchio with their fingers reaching upwards, purple carrots in vinaigrette.
Mirrors bringing in literal reflection too.
Big moist thanks to Erika Sprey for inviting us again to be a part of her brilliant curation.
