The work “150°-245°” transmutes the ephemeral act of baking into a tangible archive of labor and time. Numerous baking paper sheets—each exposed to precise temperatures within the titular range—bear ghostly
imprints of bread and steel plates. Graphite traces outline these forms, merging the organic (bread) and industrial (steel) as dual symbols of sustenance and production.
The sheets are meticulously rolled into two scrolls, graded from the deepest umber (245°C) to faintest ochre (150°C). This thermal gradient becomes a visual chronology: a spectrum of heat’s impact on material memory. The darkest sheets, nearly charred, speak to intensity and erasure; the lightest retain fragile, almost spectral impressions.
As sculptural objects, the scrolls evoke industrial spools or archaeological relics. Unfurled, they reveal a silent narrative of transformation—where bread’s vulnerability meets steel’s permanence, and where heat (an unseen force) inscribes its own language onto the skin of everyday ritual.