Easter was always a time when I would pester both my grandmothers to teach me how to make the traditional kozunak cake. This cake has become a bearer of fond memories—a kind of Proustian trigger tied to scent, taste, and time. In this work, based on a recipe by Chef Gocev, the iconic kozunak braids cradle small watercolors. These drawings, created with mursal tea, are inspired by my family photo archive. The tea, an unstable dye that fades with time, echoes how memory shifts, blurs, and sometimes disappears as the years go by.

Mursal tea and graphite on cotton paper, baking paper, metal eyelets

installation views from the show “Recipe II [Bulgaria]” at Rafael Mihaylov halls, Veliko Tarnovo

photocredit: Ivan Donchev, Radostin Sedevchev