I spent a number of years (1994 to 1997) producing bowls cast in bread-dough and baked in a medieval oven at Poilâne Bakery in Paris, France. The bread-bowl became the core motif for numerous projects related to urban culture. Immigrant bakers: Vicente, Felix, Marcel, Percy, Patrick and myself collaborated in the production of the bread-bowls and associated projects.

In “Urban Projects”, we created a series of constructions at the bakery. Much like architects designing a new city, we used baked bread-bowls (bread plates, and bread platters) as bricks, or “lego” parts, to physically design ideal units for habitation.

The project explores the Utopian imagination as it relates to notions of foreignness and migratory global processes.

Poilâne Bakery: http://www.poilane.com/pages/en/company_culture.php