Have just submitted our last design plan to Zen Hankook in Korea - we are never very sure how many of our ideas are taken up till we go out to visit, which given Covid, is not likely for a while.
My mum's birthday would have been last month, and it is with her in mind that this design came to fruition.
Old family recipes read like poetry, calming and soothing
words - words to welcome a child home from school, phrases with evoke warm
kitchens on cold winter afternoons and the joy of returning to the family.
The phrases - so familiar, delicious in themselves - Sifting
and scattering, whisking, melting and stirring, cooling. Ingredients of intense
flavours, lemon zest and cinnamon, honey, cocoa, vanilla.
Even the writing - faded and uneven from years of use and
reference, holds memories within its familiar scrawl, recollections of motherly
affection.
With this design I celebrate the preciousness of our mothers,
whose love for us throughout our childhood was constant and ever present in
their daily acts of kindness and attention.
