THE FLOUR GARDEN
Dough sculpture and baking activities:

1 The Flour Pit

Participatory art activities using flour and dough, with artist Orly Orbach and Creative-Routes.
Liberty – London Disability Rights Festival 2007
Trafalgar Square, Carnival Zone. Saturday, 1st September

2 'It's All In Your Head'- Phrenology Dough-Head Competition

The Flour Garden was a one-day participatory art event, to coincide with Creative-Routes' theme: “Two-slices Short of a Loaf”.

Creative-Routes is an award-winning charity run by mad, for the mad, celebrating the unique creativity of mad people, promoting mental well-being, and creatively campaigning against discrimination.

The Flour Garden comprised of a flour-pit in which Loopi was situated:

Loopi, the Homonutticus Nutticus, was a life-size dough public sculpture, made with the help of the public. Loopi was developed throughout the day by anyone who wanted to take part, and aimed challenge people's perceptions of maddness as it changed form. On a long table beside the flour-pit people were invited to create mini-sculptures out of dough and join our competition 'It's All In Your Head' - a phrenology-head baking competition through which people could reveals the content of their mind. The most inventive head received a prize.

The activities were devised and facilitated by Orly Orbach, commissioned by Creative-Routes – the award-winning interdisciplinary arts charity, run by the mad for the mad www.creative-routes.org, and generously sponsored by G.R.Wright & Sons Limited- London's only flour mill www.wrightsflour.co.uk

3 Orly Orbach with dough-phrenology heads.

4 Loopi, the Homonutticus Nutticus dough sculpture being made.

photos 1-4 taken by Richard Cobelli: www.illeboc-r.com

 

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