Bread & Butter
One Sheet Risograph Zine, Bright Red & Kelly Green on Ivory Paper, Printed by Quentin Mitchell, Vide Press.
The idiom "Bread & Butter" manifests as a fictional takeout menu for “Harvest Garden Chinese Restaurant”, acting as a physical veil between the surface level perception of American-Chinese food & the reality: necessary survival and assimilation in a foreign land.
Inspired by the phrase 懂得付出，才有收获, often repeated by Chinese restaurant workers translating to “have to pay the harvest” “no pain, no gain”.
Original Idiom Meaning: a person’s livelihood or main source of income, typically as earned by routine work
