More about Beans and Rice
The following book was an instrumental point of research for this piece. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00CMAFSM6&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_F3Q01HB9MPVAW9TG2X56
Background Research for Multiplicities and Mutualities at the Table
When I was in New York during the first summer of our Art Practice journey, I went to a locally owned music shop in Spanish Harlem. Everything for sale in this store was music related - records, CDs, even cassette tapes, instruments, and a few books. The one exception was that someone had taken the time to handcraft magnets. The magnets were dollhouse miniature-sized plates of beans and rice, complete with a sunny side
Red Flag and Red Beans:
Cooking Red Beans and Rice with Courtney Discussing growing up in Louisiana, weekly rituals and their loss, and finding a piece of Louisiana in Alaska. Discussion Highlights: 28:10- Sundays and red beans 40:55- Displacement/relocation & food 55:05- Loss of traditions Under Construction
Guatemalan “Chocolate” Beans and Rice
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Nigerian Ewa (Beans and Rice) – Tonia
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Anasazi Beans and Rice – Melissa
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Mung Beans and Rice – Jane
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Arroz con Gandules – Jesus
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Inspiration: No Single Player Can Win This Board Game. It’s Called Pandemic.
"Early in our marriage, we played all sorts of games together. Some worked well for us, while others … didn’t. I recall a particularly disastrous negotiation game where the emotions generated by my psychological manipulation, relentless competition and betrayals during play bled out into the real world and put a strain on our relationship." Read the full article below: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/opinion/pandemic-game-covid.html
Animal Farm, What Orwell Really Meant
"Re. your query about Animal Farm. Of course I intended it primarily as a satire on the Russian revolution. But I did mean it to have a wider application in so much that I meant that that kind of revolution (violent conspiratorial revolution, led by unconsciously power-hungry people) can only lead to a change of masters. I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how