Deliciousness out of despair:
It sounds like the beginning of a scary story, and it was. On a dark, cold night in January 2021, a 48-year old man was arrested by the Boston police department. He had broken into Arden Gallery, destroyed and stole artworks, and he had tried to break into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a small sledge hammer. One of the works in the Arden Gallery show was a painting by Latter-day Saint artist, Leslie Graff. Her painting titled She made it delicious was slashed by the thief and was unrepairable. But sometimes, a broken heart can be mended. Two years later, the artist returned to the cake image, this time holidayified with a 1950s wrapping-paper pattern based on one her grandparents had in their Idaho fabric store, which they used to wrap her Christmas gifts every year. The artist was working on the painting as her grandmother passed away, a month shy of ninety-nine years old. Graff then created the smaller holiday scene for a risograph print to benefit the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, which she titled She made the holidays delicious.
— Glen Nelson
