After a brief end-of-summer hiatus, we’re back with the last pieces of our ‘architecture of food’ issue, produced collaboratively with chlorophyll magazine. Today, we have a poem and original illustration by Lari Burgos (the creator of RENDERED, an incredible food history zine). Stay tuned for the final ‘architecture of food’ essay coming out next week.
Imagine a fractal home, made of blocks on blocks of sugarcube stairs.
Build it from the outside but
Leave a space to crawl back in.
Spend a lifetime fitting together sugarcubes, trusting
You’ll be able to fit in when the time comes.
When you finally finish.
Enter through the space you left, filling in behind you as
You return to the genesis.
Only to discover
Water’s gotten in and melted the sugar.
There is no going back to the point of origin.
You’ve enclosed yourself in a
Crumbling sugarcube fractal mansion.
Lari Burgos is a multidisciplinary artist and food writer from New England based in Anjou, France. Her work explores histories through a vibrant visual language that she calls “Domestic Psychedelia.” She writes about food history curiosities in her illustrated newsletter, RENDERED.