WHAT DID YOU EAT TODAY? (NUMBER 1)

NUMBER ONE in an ongoing project in collaboration with Sandra Cross. The subject of this silent film/portrait is Hugh de la Cruz and shows what Hugh ate on one typical day.

Extract from a taped interview:
- Sandra: "Would you have known what you were eating if you had been blindfolded?"
- Hugh: "Erm, I would have known what some of it was, yes. The chicken and the bread of course, but I... it wasn't (laughter) I don't think it was so bad that (laughter) I would have been completely mystified (laughter). Yes, I suppose that's a good test isn't it?"
- Sandra: "What did you eat as a child?"
- Hugh: "As a child? Well it was, yeah. Yes, I, erm. Again, it was just ordinary English food really... and erm. I mean, I erm, spent quite... a certain amount of my childhood in children's homes and um, they went to the trouble of preparing the food well. It wasn't, it wasn't um, pre-packaged or anything like that you know and there wasn't anything like as much pre-prepared, pre-packaged food then and um and they would do things like steak and kidney pie from scratch and what have you and um it was very nice food. I remember liking it very much."