Last year Erin a friend from the Farmer's Market asked me to do a trophy for the chef's challenge. This year I did it again using cedar, railroad spikes and round bar. I wanted to continue with some of the themes I'd been working with and I thought the cedar and RR spikes were a great North Carolina aesthetic. I also needed the cedar piece in order to put "The Champ" in text on the trophy. The lettering was the hardest part.
Frank Stacio, from the State of Things on NPR was the MC. I love his show. It's made me cry on several occasions and I always feel more human and rooted after listening to it. Last year, he interviewed me at the Market and I was unprepared so quickly had to explain why I do what I do. I wasn't to reflective at the time so this helped me focus. Thanks Frank. Plus I had to say the word "dangerMake" out loud.
Billy Cotter from Toast won the competition. I eat at Toast as a special downtown treat, so I like seeing my work there.
The secret ingredient this year was okra. Had I known I would have worked with the okra form. I was thinking more in terms of onions. Frank thought the cedar looked like a hamhock. A valid point, but I was thinking abstracted chefs hat.
It was just a little sculpture and didn't take much time, but I got a great reaction from folks.
I especially loved the chefs smack talking about how they were going to have to make more room on the refrigerator when they won. The chefs made me feel cool and gave me some confidence to plug my bikeracks for the Scrap Exchange program.
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