Performance score:
Gypsy’s Picnic #3. Performed by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow with Jenowade DeCardo Lewis

Food like art unites people. “Gypsy’s Picnic” is a performance artwork in which its post performance can remain as an interactive installation. Using the 5 objects given in the artist call: a mask, a bottle, a tool, a natural object and a blanket I perform by sitting in the nude wearing a full golden mask on side of the picnic blanket. I then interact with a member of the audience with the help of my host (played by Jenowade). The objects of my choosing are: (mask) mask, (bottle) wine, (tool) wine bottle opener, (natural object) fruit, and (Blanket) picnic blanket.

Viewers are invited to participate as my guest when I personally select them by pointing at them. My host, dressed in a suit and tie approaches the person I’ve pointed to and asks them if they’d care to join us for a picnic. The guest unaware of what is about to transpire based on their answer may be embarrassed or just find their experience to be a joke.
If the guest approves to join the picnic the host seats them on the blanket. I offer the guest some wine or food by whispering into my host’s ear and he translates it by reiterating what I’ve said out loud for the whole gallery to hear. If ‘Her Majesty’ (played by myself) likes them they are given wine.
Questions usually asked are: “Are you hungry for something salty or sweet, bitter, or sour?” Depending on my guests answer they are asked to close their eyes. I then select a handmade mask (of images of food on a paper plate with eyes cut out) for them to wear that may have that particular imagery of food they have described. My host then puts it on their face and they are then asked to be dismissed by the gestural movement of my hand. My host then tells them to leave with the words: “You may leave.“
So the viewer is left seeing a beautiful array of food on the blanket which lures them in, in the 1st place yet they are not given anything but images of food on their faces.