“Dürer’s Nose”, by Sheryl Boyle, puts the practices of making walls at the heart of an artistic inquiry presenting twenty-four fragrant, tactile and persuasively tasty walls. As a foil to the hegemony of vision, the device used to frame these walls is proposed as a confectioner’s version of Dürer’s 1525 representation of the perspective machine. By employing the alchemists’ art of dyeing and transformation, these walls (as well as the perspectival window and table) cross the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, cookery, botany and geology to create an edible intermezzi or between courses construction of wit via the exploration of the arts of the mortar & pestle and trowel.

The exhibition has been shown at Concordia University in August 2016, and expanded and shown along with a lecture at Carleton’s Light Room Gallery in March 2017.

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