Eva Schmidt, a Culinary Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, comes from a visual and performing arts background. She has been working as a multidisciplinary artist and performer in New York City for ten years, and for the last four, has transitioned into the culinary arts. She finds that these creative facets equally nourish, inform and sustain one another.
Schmidt’s cooking is influenced by her love for color, movement, image, and balancing flavors and aspires to have these interests reflected as questions in her food. How might color compose a meal, flavors move and find balance in the mouth, or images be recalled and created in taste?
To Eva, preparing food is a creative and performative action. She believes that food, like art, has the ability to heal and be far reaching. Currently, Schmidt is studying Ayurveda – an ancient Indian science of healing based on food – and is training to be an Ayurvedic chef with Bhagavat Life in NYC.