Ophelia Deng

Food For Talk

Pick a plate and have a meal with me! Over the course of my senior year at STAMPS, I invited peers and friends to sit down and have dinner with me to explore our relationship to food and our relationship to each other. I am interested in food and meal sharing as a place for intimacy and self-exploration.

Meal sharing is an important part of who I am, and how I express myself. I illustrated 8 plates depicting my different connections to food and for each of the dinners, my guests picked one of the eight plates I illustrated. Each of the meals we ate were also decided by my guest based on their personal connections to food. We each set our tables, and had a dinner together learning with each other and about ourselves.