| On the evening of December 12, 2007, 8 people came together around a table to share a meal inspired by a collection.
For this artwork, artist Jessica Gath has taken her inspiration from science’s law of conservation of mass and Daoist principles of life and death. She gathered dirt from the graves of those to whom her work pays tribute, a practice that has taken her to many locations across the United States and Europe. Gath uses this dirt in sculpture, installation, performance and cultivation to create a physical metaphor for the human experience of being one with the planet physically and transcending the body’s earthen home. The meal they shared around the table was: A Supper collaboration between artist Jessica Gath, chef Brandon Hinman Louis Agassiz, Louisa May Alcott, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Bulfinch, Eugene Delacroix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amadeo Modigliani, Moliere, Marcel Proust, Paul Revere, Henry David Thoreau, and Oscar Wilde |
