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Lessons

• Acrylic takes forever to dry when thicker than a few sheets of paper.
• Plaster of Paris does not help the drying process.
• Oil paint holds form well in a flimy structure.
• Butter sticks are packaged in 9oz sticks, but measurement marking on the wrapper usually indicate increments equal to 8oz.
• We on average consume 11 pounds of butter a year, less than in the early 1900s due to the increased use of margerine.

Thoughts

• Can this piece be incorporated into a whole ‘tea & crumpet’ session, with something as cracker wafers, another supply as cheese, another as jam spread, another as crumpets, etc.?
• This was a nice transition from the complex earlier ideas into a simplied result that includes a basis of personal prior art ("This is Not Today’s Butter" and "Will Paint for Food").
• Is it actually safe to call this a montage?

• Is four sticks of butter even necessary? Why not one?
• Acrylic, dried in layers inside a butter wrapper. Some type of thickening medium to allow solidification to happen quicker. Maybe Plaster of Paris?
• Color — Titanum White or Cadmium Yellow. Must represent butter to an extent (shape, color varience). Blue or Red could implicate other messages unnecessary to this piece.
• Butter dish. Interesting parallel of fine art and aristocratic food/beverage culture (Fine art & fine snacks for the wealthy.). Porcelain, simple.
• Palette Knife synonomous with butter knife.