Exploring Edible Ecologies
July 2024-Ongoing
Artistic research project funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in 2024 and Kone Foundation in 2025.
An experimental inquiry into the practice of foraging in Finland. The project investigates local plant knowledge, recipes, and seasons as rhythms, through embodied research—conversing, walking, foraging, baking, cooking, experimenting, and sharing. This is tightly connected to my artistic practice, specifically to my ongoing work Edible Landscapes—sculptural cakes layered with flavors and meanings. Exploring Edible Ecologies experiments with ways to incorporate my surroundings into the sweets: I imagine each cake as a collage, a landscape that becomes part of those who ingest it.
So far this project has had an edible installation in August 2024 in Penthouse gallery in Helsinki and in September 2024 during the VICCA Graduation Festival in HIAP Suomenlinna, and an evening workshop in November 2024 in the Hotelli ja-ravintolamuseo.
Edible collage comprising a seasonal jorney through July and August. Becoming our surroundings.
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.Meadowsweet in early July in Herttoniemenkartonpuisto.Infusing birch leaves, fireweed, raspberry leaves, and yarrow.Edible tres leches collage comprising a seasonal jorney through July and August.
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.
Sharing bits of my walks as cake.
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.Ingesting the landscape.