Feelings Cafe
2022 - Present
Feelings Cafe was inspired by bell hooks’ assertion in All About Love that “Healing is an act of communion.”
The project asks: what happens when eating our feelings is an experience of communion, rather than an act of isolation?
I interview each guest the same day as their cafe reservation about their current emotional landscape, and design a risotto with tasting notes that represent their feelings, which we eat together, and document collectively, me in a poem about them, and them in whatever form of art best speaks to them in the moment. I also take portraits of each guest with their feelings. I have invited ~20 people so far to be guests in the Feelings Cafe, and I aim to double that before I complete the project and do a retrospective on all of the flavorful feelings served as communion.