Baking Paper after a Pizza was baked on it, 20cm x 35cm
We value the result. The process gets forgotten. What comes before and what comes after matters little to us, as long as we don’t have to see it. We eat cooked meat but shiver in disgust at the sight of blood. We wear clothes without considering who made them. We ship our trash across oceans to avoid confronting it. We crave only the polished outcome, ignoring the importance of the process: the way there and back. This is the mentality of "the end justifies the means." But look where this has lead us.
This work wants to challenge this focus on results and explores the aesthetics embedded in the process. It captures the fleeting traces of transformation: patterns left behind on baking paper, a silent witness to creation. Baking paper, often discarded without thought, is a thin, heat-resistant sheet placed between food and metal. It prevents sticking and absorbs grease, heat, moisture, and fragments. During baking, it registers the entire transformation: fats spread, sugars caramelize, water evaporates, proteins denature. What remains on its surface is a record of becoming: a map of heat and matter in motion.
The art emerges in the process of something coming into being that feeds us and, in doing so, allows us to exist. We cannot call it an object, not even a byproduct, but an imprint of metabolic exchange. It is pure process momentarily captured. It reveals how the end came into being. And this is important. If we miss the traces of the process we miss half the reality. Only seeing the end is to be blind in one eye. Because creating a beautiful world is a process. And if that process is ugly, can the creation be truly beautiful?
My name is Caspar and I’m a 24 year old multidisciplinary artist based in Munich, who explores painting, writing, and music. For as long as I can remember I have been trying to understand the world with all its beauty but also its issues, and in the process transmitting what I learn through creative expression. Currently, a lot of the inspiration for my artistic endeavors stem from my concurrent studies in Biology.