Empathic Senses

Sensation, Empathy, Interaction...
We live with people. We cannot live without people. We interact. We are connected.

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I use food as my art tool to connect people. Omusubi is a rice ball filled with different ingredients. Omusubi is a canvas, canvas for people to explore their stories. My project is called ‘Stories of Roots (SoR)’. It is a socially-engaged-art against racism. SoR is where people meet other people. Through Omusubi, you re-look at yourself and our world with different perspectives.

For my graduation project, I worked with 5 teenagers from an Islamic community in Arnhem. We explored our stories by sensory experience. Drawing, smelling, touching, and eating activate your sensation. Sensation humanizes us. Through sensation, we empathize each other, understand each other. Empathy is the key, key for the “shift”. This is the embodiment and the empathic pedagogy. We made Omusubi products to bring their stories to others. Omusubi is a mediator between different groups of people.

I believe knowing people’s stories enables us to re-humanize. Stories tell you who you are, who they are. As the stories are different in everyone, the recipe is never the same.

Do you want to “taste” it?
To see more details: https://storiesofroots.cargo.site/