Pasta Studies: Broken. In Conversation. United.

Digital Photography | Graphic Design | Fall 2020

How do humans relate to inanimate objects? Does it play a difference whether we talk about a bowl of pasta or a metallic chair? It could be argued that one’s emotional response to the former would be greater given the “humanity” attached to food, an ingestible product which ultimately becomes part of our system. Yet the truth is that everything in our universe is made of up of atoms, the simple building blocks of matter. As such, in a purely atomical sense, we are just as much related to a bowl of pasta or a metallic chair as we are to each other. When you actually adopt this notion, you come to see that even inanimate objects can feel and converse; they dance and whisper among us, adapting to their environment through the passage of time. With this piece, I hope to embody energies beyond the limits of our human experience and explore how even singular strands of pasta, for instance, can break down, communicate, and unite.