Artist Statement

In creating this project, I wanted to address the idea of generosity on two levels; one by giving something away and two by bringing awareness to a societal problem. In thinking of generosity I immediately think about food and the issue of hunger.  Both, how making food can be a generous act as well as that people with food insecurities depend upon other people's generosity, come to mind.  I decided to bake cupcakes because they can easily be given away.  I baked a statistic about hunger issues into each cupcake and then handed out the cupcakes at Occupy Wall Street as well on the school campus.  I found both experiences to be very different.  The handing out of the cupcakes at Occupy Wall Street was the act of generosity because I felt that the people there needed the food more than the message.  On the other hand,  I felt that the message became more important than the actual food on the school campus.  Overall, my goal was to do a generous act while highlighting how significant the hunger problems are in the United States.