Imagine having everything you need to have the perfect soul food meal at any time. That’s exactly what sculptor, filmmaker, architect, and urban planner, Theaster Gates created with “Soul Food Starter Kit for Ten.” Seeking a way to objectify rituals and connect global traditions around food, Gates worked with Japanese potters to produce the wares that fill this wooden cabinet, calling the work “part fancy bento box, part big country pantry.” This artwork builds on his early work in ceramics. He has explained that “clay made me and is forever the root of my artistic interest.... Blackness, clay, immateriality, and space are all launching pads.... I am practicing acts of creation.”  In 2012, he also collaborated with chefs to host a dinner series called “Soul Food Pavilion” at Dorchester Projects, a group of once-vacant homes on Chicago’s South Side. 🍲🎨 See this artwork for yourself on Floor 2. [Theaster Gates, “Soul Food Starter Kit for Ten,” Circa 2012; Gift of the Norah and Nor...