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240 JUDIT FARKAS
Soil setting is an attempt to lessen the cognitive distance between the arable
land and meals, to increase the two-way tie-in during everyday meals. The
collection comprises dustpan-shaped ceramic platters and various dishes carrying
footprints, all to be used to serve a fruit or snack. A dustpan as a tool of key
importance of civilized living — if you like, a possible symbol of dirt — looks
strange on a dining table. Similarly, we normally find footprints on the ground
(pavement, floor), as far away from
eating in our minds as possible, for
one is clean and the other is “filthy”.
True enough, but the transforming
potential of the noble material may
help the “transfiguration of dirt” take
place in the viewer, in other words,
it may help him/her to accept that
what he/she sees is a suitable — and
clean — object for food. Why is this
important? If it does not take place
and the viewer sticks to her/her
“philosophy of dirt”, he/she can still
experience the moment of the
discovery of a real connection — the
obliteration of the concepts of clean
and dirty.
Figure 11. Reward, 2021
(Photo Richard Usher)
Figure 12. Dustpan-shaped platter,
2022 (photo Hajnal Gyeviki)