This project revisits the Western transformation of the kitchen into a laboratory, exploring the use of kitchen tools and food ingredients in printmaking. By using everyday western kitchen items such as aluminium foil and kitchen paper as well as natural food materials, such as coffee, cola and chocolate, the project expresses the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures and explores identity in cultural adaptation. The project uses a recipe format for documentation, integrating Eastern and Western lifestyles and daily habits into the experimental record.

The recipe format not only contains the creative steps but also incorporates descriptive language about material usage, merging the cooking and printing process. Through experimental printing methods, the kitchen becomes more than just a place for cooking; it becomes a creative art space.

For an international student, this fusion symbolizes a cultural journey from familiarity to unfamiliarity and back to familiarity, preserving one’s own cultural memory while continuously embracing and adapting to new cultural influences. This artistic experiment expresses self-liberation within cultural intersections, allowing the creator to redefine their identity within the artwork and find a connection to the new environment.