My wife and I run a pop-up restaurant together and we're both chefs but our approaches to plating and presentation are so fundamentally different that every menu meeting turns into a silent standoff about whose aesthetic vision gets to live on the plate. We love cooking together but lately every dish feels like a compromise that satisfies neither of us, and I can feel us both holding back our real creative impulses because we're afraid of stepping on each other's territory.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two artists sharing the same medium discover their creative languages are incompatible, but their love for both the craft and each other keeps them from addressing the fundamental aesthetic divide.
“Where Are You with Food as creativity — cooking as art?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.