{"id":362,"date":"2009-01-26T00:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-01-26T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:52:35","slug":"cakes-and-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Cakes and Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurrah for the random Internet with which I am presently blessed.<\/p>\n

Since I haven’t lost the connection, I am going to write about cakes and biscuits as I have been thinking about them recently. Some of the Things that I moved to this home from my last include a (by now inedible) special-edition cake acquired at Bobby Baker’s talk last year, and a similarly ancient, preserved-by-virtue-of-sugar biscuit that Sam made for Mark and I last Easter, involving two pig faces in a red icing heart. (Let us not analyse that image.) My retention of these cakes was partly inspired by the cake collection featured in Taking things seriously<\/em>;<\/p>\n

Of the thirty or so cupcakes I collected over the next six years, my favourites were the ones where the frosting played a crucial role in the overall presentation…After a few weeks the cupcakes would harden, crossing the line from confection to decor.<\/em> – Mimi Lipson, Taking things seriously <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As well as being faced with my own petrified sweet things during The Move it was impossible not to notice the prevalence of All Things Cake at Zinefest yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The Great Cake Escape stall at Zinefest.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Great Cake Escape<\/a> were there in full force, their presence amplified by many images of sweet cupcake type things in Zines. There was even a disturbing cartoon featuring a malevolent cupcake stabbing a fried egg to death.<\/p>\n

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Malevolent Cupcake.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been doing a spot of baking myself, though the subject here is biscuits, not cake. But icing and sprinkles feature heavily in the design of things.<\/p>\n

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My biscuits are forming the basis for a series of alternative Valentines’ Day cards to be featured in the forthcoming LOVE IS AWESOME exhibition and the intention – as with the LOVE IS AWESOME poster – is to subvert the expectations associated with a certain type of (sweet) imagery, and to convey a more complicated and conflicted message about LOVE than that perpetrated by giant, giftcard-mongers.<\/p>\n

The Great Cake Escape are also doing some kind of Valentine themed cake-themed intervention, though I am not certain how ironic this is going to be.<\/p>\n

And I do not know how best to display\/celebrate\/curate my by now incredibly stale museum of confection. What I do know is that at the moment I am interested in The Dark Side of baking; the mouldy, awkward, uncomfortable, artificial, difficult, feminist-complex, guilty, desirous revulsion of it all.<\/p>\n

What an epic medium.<\/p>\n

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