The Fortune Cookie Invite.
This commission for Bobbery Amsterdam redefined the invitation as an ephemeral object.
Instead of a printed card, sixty guests received an edible message. Each invitation took the form of a handmade fortune cookie, housed in a reusable box. The act of opening, breaking and tasting became part of the event itself.
The project explored the invitation as a temporal medium. An object designed to disappear. To be consumed rather than kept. Memory replacing material.
Working closely with the pastry department of Hotel Okura, the recipe was developed and refined for both flavour and structural integrity. The cookie functioned not only as a carrier of text, but as a sensory trigger, activating taste, scent and touch.
The work sits within a broader investigation into ephemeral and olfactory experiences. It questions what remains when the object itself is gone.
60 unique edible invitations.
Wrapping as Ritual.
Each of the sixty edible invitations was individually wrapped and boxed by hand.
The act of packaging became an extension of the work. Repetition. Folding. Sealing. Preparing each object for its brief existence.
Wrapping is often seen as secondary, a protective layer. Here it functioned as threshold. The moment before revelation. The pause before consumption.
The labour was solitary and precise. Sixty identical gestures, each enclosing something designed to disappear.
