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Object and 'Archived' materials from my late grandmothers cake baking business. This income served as a life line for Cleo to subvert finical abuse and isolation thru 70s-00s rural midwest. She converted an often folded basement into; the Cake Empire of Iowa!

 “I doubt a thing like that is valuable fifty years later, but that structure feels sacred. A snapshot of the world before everything changed for me. It was nothing special.” -Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh

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