"Today, designers are playing with food in growing numbers. Equipped with new technologies, motivated to solve problems of scarcity, obesity and waste, and encouraged by rocketing culinary enthusiasms, they are recalibrating our ideas of taste while preparing science-fiction scenarios for our kitchens."-MATTERS OF TASTE, Julie Lasky, The New York Times

Photo: Mansour Ourasanah, who was raised in Togo, designed a breeding device for…

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” ~ Bertolt Brecht…

“We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to s***. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a f-----g lactose intolerance?!”~ Chris Rock

“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.” ~Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire…

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

"BALLROOM," my debut novel has just been purchased by Harper (HarperCollins) for publication. (Represented by The Marly Rusoff Literary Agency) 

"BALLROOM" was inspired by my love for amateur ballroom dancing and Argentine tango. It began as an artist book (above) that I made while at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with five character vignettes. The novel was written to the pulsating rhythms of The Gotan Project.

[Photo: "Ballroom, an artist…

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My work is featured on pages 6-21 of Issue #0.5