Experiment 01: Make a Salad

A number of individuals received this prompt, called a “recipe.”

Is a sentence a recipe? Maybe I didn’t give you a recipe, but you created one. Given an ambiguous prompt, your understanding of the task relies on the cultural and personal references you carry with you.

In this experiment, I wanted to tap into and reveal these networks of association surrounding the question “what is salad?”

Instructions: Please (1) document your steps however you like (audio, video, image, etc) including decisions you make, and (2) photograph the final product.

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While Experiment 01 explores the tenuous category of salad, the next installment of the exercise (Experiments 02 - 08) explore recreating my own food space and definition of salad in another’s kitchen through a series of Recipes ranging in their ambiguity and authorship.