Culinary utensil delights

As the days unfold, so will the understanding of this exhibition. Throughout the poem "Kissing My Ancestors" reference has been made to cooking whether it be nurturing of the stomach, the senses or the heart. So a few objects have been identified to represent a possible liaison between the present and the past...

Aladdin's T- Pot has a slight twist in that it proudly carries the genie in the writing found on it. The cooking pots show much wear and tear as the food is left over the fire while the love potions brew. But does the Flying Bean Pot actually Fly......

TeaThyme anyone? A tea ball with flavour smoked in the fire.

2 days before the opening

As the days shorten down to hours and the lists reduce down to crossed off parallel lines, the feeling of putting the work out there is painfully similar to taking that first step off a cliff into glacier water, or writing a dictée, or getting up in front of a group of people who have no idea what you are all about. It is scary and daunting but there is also an excitement that this time there is something to be said and hopefully a new way of saying it....

Introducing the Poet, BB Smith

Here's a chatty bio:
BB Smith B.A. New York University, MST Pace University, Celta Certificate, University of Cambridge, UK. Poetry and essays have appeared in Literary Magazines and Anthologies. Author of TINKERBELLE AND THE TAXI POEMS(published in part) and currently working on two poetry manuscripts: PLUMBING IN THE MIDDLE AGES and POEMS NOIR:  DRIVING IN THE DARK AS THE LAST LATE NIGHT POET.
I have written a number of short stories, a screenplay (BABE IN THE LAND OF WAHOOS), a one-act drama, TALE FROM THE FRONT (SEAT), and am currently working on a short story/drama: STRAWBERRY 'N DRIFTER. I am also doing research on an unknown but extremely gifted and reclusive 19th century American poet who is contemporary with the hermit, Emily Dickinson, and lived only twenty miles away. I am convinced they knew each other..From the research will come a book or a dramatic piece.
 
I've been a  producer of  video documentaries and a  TV Talk Host of  a Psychic New Age show, THE ENCHANTED CANDLE which aired in Westchester and New York. Currently I drive buses, short and long distances, to satisfy my yearing for the open road. This is one of the few ways I can assimilate the fact that I have to work for a living, with a  bit of my creative talent: working at night frees the the mind to hear lines of song and verse and allows the mind to wander, a privilidge few artists have these days.
 
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How "Kissing My Ancestors" came about:
Because we are preoccupied with sex here in America, I decided to address the issue. The Poem searches through the millenia for the origins of art and for that fanciful moment when humans first began kissing. As I was writing, it made me wonder if there will ever be an archaeological dig that unearths pots and tablets telling risque tales like these, or perhaps makes the discovery of a cave full of amusing pornographic verse.
 

Kissing My Ancestors exhibition