The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 06,'2010 - 5A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 5A Marije Vogelzang discusses her delicious designs in A2 Lucy vWainrign socne releases ner first frl-lengn album on uct. 2 Roche folks The Ark By ARIELLE SPECINER DailyArts Writer Though her family name may bring her recognition, Lucy Wain- wright Roche is certainly break- Lucy ing out on her Wa. ownin In prepara- Roche tion for her stop in Ann Arbor, Tonight at Roche - a folk 8 p.m. musician known The Ark for her candid- Tickets from $21.50 ly funny stage demeanor - spoke with the Daily about her famous family (half- brother Rufus, father Loudon and mother Suzzy Roche), asserting that they won't influence her as she blossoms into a new artist. "We're all in the same business, everyone is very supportive of each other. And also, we're all very different from each other, so that kind of allows us to each have our own thing," Roche said. Since most of her family con- sists of singer-songwriters like herself, Roche grew up on the road, and her nomadic life heavily influences her songwriting. Her first full-length album, LUCY, which will be released Oct. 28, recounts her days on tour with her family as well as her travels as a solo singer. "There are a lot of different songs about different places. I think that's a reflection of how long I've been away from home for the past couple of years," Roche explained. -While Roche enjoys touring, she does admit to being homesick. "I miss being home sometimes, but I don't think I would trade all the things that have happened to me on the road and the people that I've met," she said. And shehas metsome incredible people. Roche has been co-billed with fellow singer-songwriter and friend Antje Duvekot at many tour stops and will be opening for the Indigo Girls in a few weeks start- ing in New Hampshire. She has also shared the stage with some of her relatives. "I've been really lucky to get to open for lots of different artists and share the stage with lots of different people and that's one of the highlights of this whole career so far," she said. Though she is just starting out, Roche has earned a good deal of praise. Ira Glass of National Public Radio compared her to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Patti Griffin. Seeming flabbergasted by the compliment; Roche responded, "It's so amazing, I can hardly believe that it was said. I'm cer- tainly flattered, it's a great com- parison and I'm honored to be compared to either one of them." However, she refuses to be con- fined to those judgments. "I think that my personality and my music is pretty specific to who I am. There may be parts of me that's certainly been influenced by people ... like Joni Mitchell or Patti Griffin or even my family mem- bers. But really at the end of the day, you kind of end up being who you are naturally, too." 'My Designs Inside Your Body' looks at the aesthetics and culture of food By PROMA KHOSLA For the Daily While interactive art exhibi- tions are becoming increasingly popular, few end with patrons actually con- suming the .. pieces on dis- die play. Among Vogezang: these few are yAufl m the designs of Marije Vogel- Inside Your zang, Dutch food designer and upcoming Tomorrow at lecturer in the 5:10 p.m. School of Art & Michigan Theater Design's Penny Stamps Speak- er Series. Vogelzang specializes in food design, a field in which artists prepare and arrange food to be aesthetically pleasing. Through her catering company, Proef, Vogelzang simultaneously creates exhibitions and meals. "I'm educated to be a product designer, but I decided to choose food as my preferred material," Vogelzang wrote in an e-mail interview with the Daily. "When working with food I noticed that it has so much effect on the world around us and ourselves." Vogelzang considers herself an "eating designer" rather than a food designer, because she believes "food is already perfectly designed by nature." As an eating designer, Vogelzang is more con- cerned with food's origin, prepa- ration, etiquette, history and culture. She tries to find unusual combinations and methods of pre- paring her pieces, which range from hors d'oeuvres to full meals. _. Marije Vogelzang makes interactive art you can eat. She focuses on the verb "to eat" and the ways it can be manipu- lated. "I work on food related proj- ects like restaurant concepts, dinners, hospital projects, inspi- ration sessions, food industry and try to make simple creative ideas that respect food," Vogelzang explained. One of Vogelzang's favorite projects was a recreation of World War II recipes served to people who survived the Rotterdam Hunger Winter during the war. Though many of the guests were so old they could no longer taste food, the look and feel of Vogel- zang's recipes stimulated their memories from more than 60 years ago. "Another one that I like is a project to get children to eat vege- tables," Vogelzang added. "I invit- ed 12 kids to my studio and told them we were going to make jew- elry out of vegetables. The main tools they could use were their teeth. The children were making their jewelry and were ... chew- ing away lots of vegetables that they stated before they didn't like. The emphasis was on playing. Not on eating. Secretly they ate and accepted the taste." In her 10 years of integrat- ing art and food, Vogelzang has' found that the right eating design. can benefit the mind and heart as well as the body. She has devel- oped her own set of criteria for her company's eating design, working with eight points - the senses, nature, culture, society, technique, psychology, science and action - to stimulate the brain and emotions. "When working with food, naturally you work with the senses. But more important is the story behind it, the story that I want to tell. Sometimes it's about where the food comes from or what it does to yourbody or how food makes you communicate and share with your fellow table guests," Vogelzang wrote.