A photographer from Stockholm came up with the idea of carving dough into loaves and creating designs. An artistic message that wants to focus on the importance of good food
Take one loaf rustic, round and beautiful large: now turn it into a canvas to paint on! It is the idea that came to Linda Ring, a photographer from Stockholm who, with a creative mind always looking for new stimuli, began to draw on the surface of the bread. Her creations, published on Instagram, have made the rounds of social networks and have provided her with some professional collaborations.
Bread becomes a work of art
The drawings are made by engraving the pasta of the bread before cooking, sometimes directly, sometimes following a sketch drawn first on a sheet. L'engraving the most classic one we are used to seeing is the cross-shaped one, which in addition to being the sign of the blessing of bread, is a way to give the dough a way to expand in cooking, choosing the direction in which it will do so.
The engravings by Linda Ring instead transform the bread in works of art they depict portraits and natural subjects. Linda is a creative, but her inspiration also comes from previous work in an auction house and the natural landscapes in which she grew up, those of the Stockholm archipelago.
A nice bread, but also good
Linda is not only attentive to the aesthetic aspect of bread, but also to quality of the food. It is she herself who prepares the loaves with flour from a small mill of Stockholm, always experimenting with different types, and with natural yeast. In fact, his message is not only artistic, but concerns the importance of making good bread, starting from the way in which the wheat is grown, and then taking all the time necessary for the leavening and cooking. Our impression is that his shots seem to tell us: "Take life slowly, choose carefully what you eat, surrounded by simple things, nature and affections".
Linda does not sell bread because, she explains, she is not a baker and cannot produce large quantities of bread, but she likes to prepare it for share it with the family or to wear like gift to friends. And doesn't a hot, fragrant and designed loaf seem the simplest and most beautiful gift in the world?
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