This etching by Marina Abramović is part of a work that grew out of a performance piece undertaken by the artist in Studio Stefania Miscetti, an Italian art gallery, where Abramović used pig’s blood to write “recipes” on the walls of the gallery. As with Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, the recipes take the form of instructions, such as “look in the mirror / for as long as it is necessary / for your face to disappear / don’t eat the light.” In the gallery, each recipe was accompanied with a small icon painted with blood.

The complete work offered here contains all of the recipes, letterpress printed, and each is accompanied by an etching with aquatint. There are twelve works in all organized as a portfolio of loose sheets and placed in a single clamshell box. All of the components of the work can be seen together in the collections section of this gallery’s listings under the title “Abramović Spirit Cooking”.