Sophistication of Taste
2002
cookies and milk, ingredients on dishes

A lot of Travis Lee’s work revolves around the idea of judgement and personal taste. In this project he took the idea head on and made some cookies. There were 7 ingredients in the cookies and each was displayed on dishes in the same proportion that was in the cookies.

“Taste is such a wierd thing. And not just about taste in food, but taste in clothes, or style or in artwork. In this project I thought that, you know, we take all these separate ingredients and we put them together and it tastes good. But what if we were to try all these ingredients separately? I think food taste is the same for style, it is a certain formula or conglomeration of things that made ‘good’ style. And doing this, judging these separate elements and putting them together to say something was good or bad is very sophisticated.”


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