Sophie Calle/The Chromatic Diet

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if the rules are to be broken, 

why not creating a colourful week diet and table setting out of one Paul Auster's character?

        每次當我決定要寫甚麼主題時，就會特別分心，Ann還在等我的DIY手鍊發佈，然而我卻遲遲無法一個口令一個動作，我在瀏覽Crow in Crown中發現Sophie Calle的這個作品，The Chromatic Diet，被這些和諧顏色的食物和文字所吸引，一旦要仔細了解卻觸礁．也許是Sophie Calle的作品表徵性很強，並且在虛實之間的藝術評論中有許多艱澀的外文說明我很難逐一去解釋了解，但我會盡自己能力去做一個概略性說明，如果有措辭不當之處可以直接回應給我，那就太謝謝你了strangers．

        Sophie Calle, a French-born Conceptual artist with a fine-tuned sense of humor, is a world-class snoop.，我特別喜歡Frances Morris敘訴Calle的特質： Calle著迷於人們在公眾生活中與私人意識的接合處，導致於她進行調查使用的技術近似於一個私人偵探，心理學家，或法醫科學家的行為模式。這也使我們透過她有趣的作品得知她那些像想像般地生活模式。然而The Chromatic Diet這個作品，主要是出自於Double Game （雙人遊戲between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster.），Calle決定在保羅奧斯特的小說基礎上做一個遊戲create her own particular mixture of reality and fiction。可以參考NY TIMES這篇Maria, Myself and I－的介紹．

      Maria Turner是Paul Auster在Leviathan（中文譯巨獸／1992）小說中塑造出來的藝術家，whose work had nothing to do with creating objects commonly defined as art.透過解開書頁上的紅絲帶我們就像開啟了the floodgate of Calle's images, ideas, stories, memories. Calle創建她和Maria，和Auster豐富和真實的關係，就像a great French meal，使我們像要更多。The Chromatic Diet色階飲食便是其一Auster

對Maria Turner發明一個獨特的行為儀式，限制她自己 ＂foods of a single colour on any given day.＂而Calle對於呈現混合藝術與日常生活的策略是建立在攝影手法上，跟隨Maria的指示 did as she does.做出菜餚並將這些單色食物拍攝下來，整齊劃一的陳列在白色背景上，她充滿創意和想像的火花是如此地充滿力量就如同作品帶給觀者的吸引力一般。

以下是The Chromatic Diet 1周的圖片，點這裡有文字敘述．

To be like Maria, during the week of December 8 to 14, 1997, I ate Orange on Monday, Red on Tuesday, White on Wednesday, and Green on Thursday. Since Paul Auster had given his character the other days off, I made Friday Yellow and Saturday Pink. As for Sunday, I decided to devote it to the full spectrum of colors, setting out for six guests the six menus tested over the week....