Everyone in the orbit of academic culture talks about deconstructing things. You hear it not just in grad seminars, but in yeshivot and corporate diversity trainings. If I had a nickel for every time someone used the word deconstruct simply to mean challenge…
For me as a cook, deconstruction is a way to approach complex or stuffy food ideas in a way that examines and cherishes the components that make up the dish. As an artist it is way to peak behind the veil of artifice and reveal the components that combined to make the creation. The deconstructed objects are now new and whole and can be further deconstructed. One could say that everything is in a state of potential deconstruction and all deconstructed objects are composed of unreconstructed constructions.
For me as a cook, deconstruction is a way to approach complex or stuffy food ideas in a way that examines and cherishes the components that make up the dish. As an artist it is way to peak behind the veil of artifice and reveal the components that combined to make the creation. The deconstructed objects are now new and whole and can be further deconstructed. One could say that everything is in a state of potential deconstruction and all deconstructed objects are composed of unreconstructed constructions.