Martha, visual artist-photographer, mother, organic zucchini gardener, creatively arranges her food in still life compositions sensitive to form and color. Her piscean affinity to water relentlessly draws her to ocean beaches for physical and spiritual revitalization.
Martha selects the romantic genre of the country home near the sea for her favorite meal: lobster, dry vermouth, and green salad. She cooks a freshly caught lobster in boiling salt water, transforming the dark shell to a brilliant red. Martha is attracted to the anatomical puzzle of the crustacean and the process of extracting meat from the shell. She passionately dips the succulent white flesh in drawn butter, leisurely conversing and eating all but the organs and hairy hidden parts. Traces of the butter and meat coat her hands and chin. Martha preceives the lobster as a large grotesque insect, but is not disposed to sample grasshoppers or chocolate ants.
Martha is a descendant of a family of notorious eaters. Her portfolio documents a poor childhood appetite, frequently producing emotional trauma at meal times. She was persuaded to eat quantities of bananas with cream and sugar, egg noodles with sour cream and cottage cheese, and charlotte russe, painting her diet dispostion an indelible white.