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Cooking Show with Jesse
[Four people connect virtually on a Zoom grid comprised of three rectangles that is outlined by a magenta line. They are filming a cooking show segment of The Harmony Show entitled Jesse and Chicken Pumpkin Soup that features a call-in from iDollator Jesse who keeps his camera off. On the top left is Amber Hawk Swanson, a femme white woman with long dark hair and bangs wearing a periwinkle dress and a lavender mask. She stands in front of a stainless steel table with pots, bowls, and other cooking-related tools. On the top right of the grid is Sidore Kuroneko, a Japanese-British Synthetik. Sidore has light skin and short purple hair which partially covers the left side of her face. She wears a black blouse with fuschia skulls, a velveteen corset, red lipstick, silver-framed glasses, and vintage Pan Am corded headphones. She sits in front of a black bookcase holding books and collectables. In the bottom rectangle is Davecat, a Black man with dark hair slicked over the right side of his forehead wearing a grey button down shirt with a purple patterned tie. He wears silver and black corded headphones and sits on a loveseat covered with a plaid blanket. His bookshelf and desk are viewable in the background, as is part of a British flag hung on the wall.]
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RECIPE
- Heal Me Delicious. “Chicken and Pumpkin Soup.” October 31, 2020. https://healmedelicious.com/chicken-and-pumpkin-soup/
Photograph by Nicole of Heal me Delicious︎︎︎
[A glazed white bowl with an unglazed earthen edge sits atop a white marble countertop. The bowl holds a serving of delicious-looking orangey-yellowy pumpkin soup. Unchopped spinach leaves, chopped herbs, and chunks of ground chicken emerge from the base of the soup’s surface. A black soup spoon rests face-up on the edge of the bowl and dips partly into a mixture of pumpkin and broth base and herbs, poised for someone to take into their mouth. A loosely folded natural linen napkin sits under the bottom left side of the frame while a second, identical, bowl of soup peeks into the top right corner of the frame.]
[A glazed white bowl with an unglazed earthen edge sits atop a white marble countertop. The bowl holds a serving of delicious-looking orangey-yellowy pumpkin soup. Unchopped spinach leaves, chopped herbs, and chunks of ground chicken emerge from the base of the soup’s surface. A black soup spoon rests face-up on the edge of the bowl and dips partly into a mixture of pumpkin and broth base and herbs, poised for someone to take into their mouth. A loosely folded natural linen napkin sits under the bottom left side of the frame while a second, identical, bowl of soup peeks into the top right corner of the frame.]
- Mentioned by Amber at 3:22min, Sidore (Mark II) / Heather > LOLITA is a collaborative work engineered by Amber Hawk Swanson with the collaboration of Davecat, in which she transformed the unused bodies of two RealDolls, Sidore Kuroneko and Heather, into a replica sculpture of the orca Lolita, over the course of several days.
- Jesse mentions at the 3:57min mark of the release of Tokitae, aka Toki. The orca known by the Miami Seaquarium as Lolita and by the Lummi Nation as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, was a captive whale at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida, from 1970 to 2022. In March of 2023, Toki was set to be released to the Pacific ocean, but unfortunately passed away five months later in August of that year—prior to being released—due to renal failure.
- Blackfish, mentioned by Jesse around 4:03, is a 2013 documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite that addresses the topic of captive orcas, specifically Tilikum, the orca at SeaWorld from 1992 to 2017 who killed several trainers due to the psychological stress of being held captive. A trailer can be found here.
- Amber mentions Doll Closet at the 5:23min mark; this is a performance piece from 2014 in which she built a replica version of the closet that iDollator Jesse used to hide his then-Doll Heather from prying eyes. A summary and video of the livestream can be found on Amber’s site here.
- Heather, mentioned by Jesse at 6:40min, was his first Doll, a RealDoll made by Abyss Creations. Her deteriorating silicone body was donated to Amber Hawk Swanson for use in the assembly of a replica of the orca Lolita, from the aforementioned performance Sidore (Mark II) / Heather > LOLITA.
- Rhiannon, as mentioned by Amber at the 7:41min mark, is Jesse’s second Doll, as made by the now-obsolete Doll making studio, Sinthetics, out of southern California
- The carousel that Amber mentions at 16:18min would be Jane’s Carousel, an amusement park ride in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, that dates back to 1922, and features 48 carved wooden horses. Amber had a stint working there from 2014–2018.
THS Live! Call-in with Jesse was recorded on April 1st, 2023.
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