Lucy Sparrow’s latest installation, “Feltz Bagels,” uses approximately 30,000 pieces of felt to recreate the look and feel of an authentic Jewish bagel shops.
NEW YORK — While not one the major food groups, a bagel and a schmear made of felt might satisfy your appetite for art.uses approximately 30,000 pieces of felt to recreate the look and feel of the authentic Jewish bagel shops prominent in New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood.Sparrow says she wanted to depict how this breakfast food brought here by Eastern European immigrants in the late 19th century “morphed into New York society” and beyond, making the bagel the Swiss Army knife of breads.
Adding a dose of reality, Sparrow works the counter, taking orders for the bagel of your dreams — or your regular order, if you’re so inclined. The custom bagel sells for $250, and pricing for other items starts at $10. “You are absolutely forcing people to interact with the art that you’re not usually supposed to do in the art galleries,” Sparrow said. “I want them to curate their own sandwich with like as little input from me as possible and have that turning art into almost like their own portrait through the medium of felt food.”
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