Spice Cake with Pink Applesauce Filling

Interview with Catherine Cavanaugh

Performance Photos

It is freezing cold outside today, and the heat is out so it's just as cold in the gallery. The interns are all huddled in the back office around the space heater, and we’re trying to stay warm around the hearth of a toaster oven, making apple spice cake. Due to numb fingers, we skipped the applesauce. But I did make it at home the next day and it was delicious—there is nothing like homemade applesauce. The cake was yummy--full of molasses, ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon with topped with whipped cream frosting, but would have been even yummier with a layer of applesauce. After the performance I took a piece of cake over to the proprietor of Cafe Society, a wonderful vintage clothing shop ( located at 131 Cypress St, Brookline, MA 02445-6014) I have been passing by on my way from the T to the gallery every day since this performance began. I finally stopped in yesterday. While I tried on clothes, she and I chatted about food (of course), and art, and discovered we have folks in common at the Museum School. It’s such a small world really. The act of taking cake to someone who couldn’t attend the performance because she to mind her store, started me thinking about an iiteration of Variations beyond the gallery space to reach other folks who aren’t able to, or wouldn’t normally go to see art in a gallery or museum. But that is an idea for another time.