With Scanwiches I wanted to celebrate the remarkable qualities of one of my favorite foods, sandwiches. They’re these beautiful and personal objects that are easily forgotten or ignored. They have these architectural qualities, they’re constructed, not just made, that’s cool to me and I wanted to expose their intricacies.

I also love that they hold so many stories. Everybody eats food, and a lot of people eat sandwiches and for every sandwich there is some story.

Sandwiches like the hamburger tell us about the shaping of a nation. Individual sandwiches can jog a long-forgotten childhood memory like the smell of 3rd grade or that time we puked in the cafeteria in kindergarten. Deeply personal and important stories hide between those layers of bread.

– Jon Chonko.

This, so hard. The Scanwiches exhibit at JS55 just catapulted to the top of my list of things to see in New York in the coming weeks. I’ll certainly report back.

Via dpecs.