Ramen Bowl | Artist Statement

Jonathan Barnbrook British graphic designer, typographer, and filmmaker, best known for designing David Bowie's album Heathen in 2002 This design is inspired by the fact that we, and everything around us, are made up of debris from stars—from the planets in the solar system and the earth on which we are born to the people we know and love and the food we put in our mouths.When we eat food, there is an obvious change from matter into energy, and this small transformation is a symbol of the bigger transformation of energy to matter of our existence.The text on the spoon says, “everything is,” and the text on the outside of the bowl says “stardust,” completing the statement: “everything is stardust.”The circle in the center is a diagram of a star. Each concentric circle represents an element that makes up a star.These are listed at the rim of the bowl.

Photo by Hiroshi Tsujitani (Nacasa & Partners Inc.)

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