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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)
