What happens when recipes are treated not merely as food instructions but as design material? Recipes intrinsically contain narratives, memories, family relationships, and cultural knowledge. My thesis narrates my family legacy through recipes of three prawn-based dishes, using graphic design to make these stories visible. Visual design can draw attention to quiet narratives within everyday cooking. By treating recipes as storytelling devices, this project shows how cooking can uphold narratives of survival, celebration, and migration, one dish at a time.
An Edible Inheritance
Patrali Bhaskar
An Edible Inheritance Exhibition
Overview of the illustrated walls in the exhibition.
Visitor Experience
Visitors observing and reading the materials.
Scale of the exhibition
The scale and contrast of the exhibition wall in comparison to the viewer.
Illustrated wall 1
Overview of the illustration on wall one with the three prawn based recipes over the thread of mustard oil.
Prawns with Taro Leaf
Close up and details from the Prawn with Taro leaves recipe.
Prawns with Jackfruit
Tiny, big, shelled and without shell prawns layered with jackfruit pieces from the Prawns with Jackfruit recipe.
Transition from wall 1 to wall 2
Details capture the transition from recipes to the portraits on another wall, with one big prawn juxtaposed as the anchoring element.
Illustrated wall 2
Overview of the illustration on wall two with the three corresponding portraits for each recipe.
Illustrated Portrait 1
Close up of illustration for Portrait 1 along with the laser engraved title cards and handwritten recipe notes.
Illustrated Portrait 2
Details of illustrated Portrait 2 along with the laser engraved cards in Latin and Vernacular language.
Illustrated Portrait 3
Close up of illustration for Portrait 3 along with the laser engraved cards.
Laser Engraved Recipe Cards
Close up showing the details of laser engraving done on Birchwood for the Recipe cards.
Laser Engraved Recipe Cards 2
Close up showing the details of the laser engraved Vernacular card.