Kang Yi
Installation / Artistic Research
Milkfish Maw Plate
2016
Exhibited at
Fubon Living Art Space
-PVC, Denim,
Light Wood
{Delicious Workshop}
Chung, Yu Ting
Tu, Jen Chieh
Yeh, Fan
Kang, Yi
The assignment was to pick a great local food and extend that into a concept. We picked a place and a dish to describe and started building our concept sticking to the title "delicious taste". Our team involved students from different fields. We had four members in each group that had majored in different design. We began thinking why we thought braised milkfish maw is delicious. We broke down this dish : colour, texture , environment of dining place , scent, conditioning , ingredients.Then we decomposed the results from the first step and extended them: the shape of milkfish maw looks like moutonnee, there is a stacked layers showed by its texture, and process of approaching this dish with chopsticks.
Not to change any conditions of the dish itself in flavour or figure, we chose to bring out the delicacy by emphasising environmental elements. We used elements we analysed in the second step. So we chose to emphasize the shape of this dish and the way we eat it.Experiences of our team shows that we didn’t want to leave any bit of fish maw. Finally, we decided to make a perfect plate for this perfect dish. Shape of this plate is ellipse. What’s different from normal plates is there’s a hump at the center of this plate, the curve of it fits curve of fish maw, so they are perfectly fit for each other. Trench around the hill is designed for left of the fish maw so they can be easily collected. Trench is also for putting soy sauce .
Our purpose was to make this dish unique by using particular plate to provide special eating process. This plate is transparent and has certain measure of thickness. Beneath this plate were the ocean waves made of denim fabric. When finishing this dish, you will see the expression of freshness.