I thought I was don’t but I’m not
Okay, so you know Baking, right? Well it’s works because of Chemistry, and if you know the Chemistry, you can develop your own recipes. This makes sense?
Well if I have a class to teach, I can ask you on the first day, “Would you like to learn some recipes? Or would you like to learn how to invent a recipe?”
And most people who take art classes, they do it because they want to feel like an artist. So they tell me, “I want to invent a recipe”.
And I tell them, “Okay. Well then today we’re going to learn about carbon”
A LOT of my quasi-students sit through this painfully and maybe come back once or twice before dropping out.
The remainder will say, “Oh, I don’t want to do that, can we do a recipe instead?” And I can work with that. Nothing wrong with it.
And then a few. A small, blistering, agonizing remainder. Will dig their heels into the concrete and INSIST that No, They Are Not Doing That. They Are Just Going To Create A Recipe. They Are An Artist.
And these students- I beg them, “You might be a pretty good artist already, but if you’re going to try an invent a whole new kind of cake from the ground up, you’re going to have to learn about levening agents”
And they say “No! I Make cakes all the time”
And I say “Okay. Well then, can I see you make a shortbread first?”
And then this sort of learner will almost invariable become defensive, decide I doubt them, and doubles down on proving themselves by doing something IMPRESSIVE to win my respect, and they’ll say something to the tune of “NO!!! Shortbread is easy and boring. I am an ARTIST. I don’t NEED to make shortbread. I will make A NEW KIND OF MACARON”
And I tell them. “I can teach you a cupcake recipe. Or you can show me how you make shortbread. One or the other. Option three is I go home”
And either they call it all off and storm away. Or they make the shortbread
And the shortbread has been, every single time this has happened, unexceptional.
Maybe it’s awful. Maybe it’s fine. But it’s never anything better than ‘á shortbread’.
And then I ask them how their ingredients BECAME shortbread
And they never know the fucking answer
So like. If you are a student of any kind. In any discipline. I am begging you to ask yourself.
Do you want to be a baker?
Or do you just want to make a cake
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