Painting Graubünden in chocolate
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Two hundred hand-cut chocolate shingles, a palette of grey I had to invent, and the week the mountains moved into my kitchen.
Thoughts, places, moments.
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Notes from the atelier and the road — the slow diary of the 26 Cantons journey.
Walking the Lavaux terraces with a sketchbook
Before a canton becomes a cake, it becomes twenty pages of pencil. Vaud began on a hot afternoon between the vines.
Mixing a colour that doesn't exist yet
Alpine dusk is not in any pigment catalogue. How I build custom edible colours, and why white is the hardest.
The night we cut the Ticino piece
An artwork three weeks in the making, gone in fifteen minutes — and why that is the best part.
A morning among drying petals
Sugar flowers need thirty-six hours of stillness. So does the person who makes them.
The cake that started everything
It was lopsided, too sweet, and my grandmother said it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
Twenty-six promises to a new home
The evening I pinned a map of Switzerland to the atelier wall and decided to taste all of it.