2,000 SUGAR CUPS more images, click bellow

In 2015 during a residency at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, I completed an installation of 2,000 hand-built sugar cups. Working in an edible medium, this city of 2,000 individual, intricately hand-piped and decorated cups made of sugar was a swan song to punctuate a long cake decorating career. My impulse to spend hours, days, weeks, and months making thousands of beautiful, seriously considered objects that would never belong, have no place to go nor fit into any existing club, while still being really good was a familiar feeling! One part futility, and one part defiance, the process and ultimate completion of this project provoked many dynamic about conversations about function, authenticity, temporality, materialiality and material worth..

**UPDATE: 2024 SUGAR CUP PROJEC (stay tuned!)