pastry tube

Carlson has re-created her 1981 installation “Tough Shift for M.I.T.” by once more taking up a pastry tube to squeeze regularly spaced, unusually tactile little flowers across the walls of a gallery here.

The Foodini extrudes prepared ingredients, squeezing dough into perfect breadsticks or squirting vegetable paste into cute dinosaur shapes; Russin called it a “glorified pastry tube operating on an X-Y axis.”

She applied the mural’s myriad dots herself, “following the painter with a pastry tube. Some were applied so thickly they’re still soft.”

This can be forced through a pastry tube, or, through a cornucopia, made from ordinary white letter paper.

If you have no pastry tube or squirt, form little round mounds by dipping up portions with a small spoon dipped in cold water.