Love, Toast, Text, Haiku

Cutline: Missa Coffman, director of photography in the Art Department, puts a new spin on toast and texting Thursday afternoon at the faculty art show reception in the University Art Gallery. Coffman has invited people to compose haiku messages to loved ones and text them to her; selected messages are painted on bread with dyed milk and toasted. Texters have the option to include a phone number in their message in order for Coffman to relay the toast message via picture text.

Thursday afternoon I shot the faculty art show reception for CMLife and got to see one of my own professors, Missa Coffman, in action. She did a demonstration piece using - drumroll please - toast and texting.

I love this project for its originality; it is postmodern in so many ways, including that the finished products are edible! (What's more fun than the idea of eating art?!) I'm also intrigued by the conceptual premise of it - that art today can be made so simply, using the barrage of new technologies we have available to us, including cell phone cameras.

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