Humans are used to clichés: permits, prescripts, prohibitions. In the ancient times implacability of the cliché was supported with symbolic codes.
The code, though, is now forgotten, the symbols have become mere ornaments, and primitive craftsmen evicted them from sacral places and spread them over
walls of their dwellings, spinning wheels, batlets and table-cloths…
Road signs are modern clichés. They are universal, and frequently used in advertising and on clothes…
Curiously, the images on some of them have lost their real sense and become mere symbols.
Such road signs as «No-turnpike railway crossing», «Cattle passing», «Wild animals», «No cartage», «Working days»
have grown out of use already. Hence, they are close to handicrafts.
In our project we use archaic road signs to carve spice-cake printing boards and bake travel spice-cakes:
they are tasty and nourishing, they grow neither dry nor hard fast, and travellers always took spice-cakes with
them when they set their feet on the path. And the very word «spice-cake» is rooted in «spice»: the cake receipt included
up to 15 different roots and aniseed. And we use old receipts to bake spice-cakes for travellers, we recall old and forgotten times, we tame the road…
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