Number one in an ongoing project in collaboration with Sandra Cross. The subject of this silent film/portrait is Hugh de la Cruz and shows what Hugh ate on one typical day.
Extract from a taped interview:
Sandra: "Would you have known what you were eating if you had been blindfolded?"
Hugh: "Erm, I would have known what some of it was, yes. The chicken and the bread of course, but I... it wasn't (laughter) I don't think it
was so bad that (laughter) I would have been completely mystified (laughter). Yes, I suppose that's a good test isn't it?"
Sandra: "What did you eat as a child?"
Hugh: "As a child? Well it was, yeah. Yes, I, erm. Again, it was just ordinary English food really... and erm. I mean, I erm, spent quite... a certain amount of my childhood in children's homes and um, they went to the trouble of preparing the food well. It wasn't, it wasn't um, prepackaged or anything like that you know and there wasn't anything like as much pre-prepared, pre-packaged food then and um and they would do things like steak and kidney pie from scratch and what have you and um it was very nice food. I remember liking it very much."