The Endangered Species Recipe Book
Installation art by Elizabeth Demaray and Hugo Bastidas
19 / 06 / 15 bis 28 / 08 / 15
The Endangered Species Recipe Book is the title of a series of oil paintings on paper that depict animals that have gone extinct, or are going extinct, and the historic recipes that we humans have used to cook them.
The brainchild of painter Hugo Bastidas and sculptor Elizabeth Demaray, the project is inspired by the work of the natural scientist E.O. Wilson, who believes that by the end of this century—in our lifetimes, we will lose half of all plant and animal species currently in existence, if our current rate of ecological destruction continues. The Endangered Species Recipe Book, considers ways to view our ecological moment in the context of our historic interactions with the natural world.
Menu DANCE OF THE DEAD
Accumulation
meat loaf | leaves
sausage | salads
ostrich egg | herbs
dumplings | flowers
Memento mori
lamb |meat | cooked
deer | bone | baked
beef | intestine | grilled
Trilobite
tonka bean gelatin
pear puree
almond plate
chocolate