This table constitutes a first outcome for the project, putting on stage raw ingredients that yet express their innate potential. It can be read from multiple perspectives. It is a celebration of simple and healthy epicurean pleasures that can help relink our body and mind. It is also organized like a graph on which each object's width and height, their placement, their variations and their functions as table objects display information about timescales and the strengths of the different influences between our nourishment and our body. By representing organs and molecules on which the different influences rely and by illustrating the dynamics felt when they occur, the objects can be a means of obscure explanation of the internal alchemies of the body. They appear in a plain white material like white glass, rendering the objects neutral and consistent. It evokes the slight transparency of the living materials and the organs that are freely depicted in the objects. They are like a skin from which the objects exist while covering them so that they are not completely unveiled.

The table follows a graph-like logic. It has a general vertical direction. Ingredients are displayed on top of the objects and their transformation is illustrated as they « fall » down to their final stage: taking place in the balance of our feelings and senses on the tablecloths. The objects show the transformation of our food into nutriments and materials of the body. Each object embodies a thread inside those multiple influencing layers, their height shows its temporality while their general size indicates its amplitude. They illustrate the organs where these threads take place and they are organized to one another according to how these threads interract within our body. A central laced tablecloth shows the functional and biological effects of these materials in the reactions of the body. It works as a transition between the objects and the table. This first cloth layer opens on a second one that covers the whole table, with colorful layers spreading onto one another, tending to act as a screen that expresses how these reactions can be sensitively felt.

The two central cups embody the most direct reactions between the body and some types of food. They act as the reference for the other objects on the table. Our body is not able to synthetize some particular proteins, thus they are extracted from the food we eat and then transformed into neurotransmitters. These neurotransmitters are serotonin and dopamine and they directly regulate our emotions and moods. Each cup illustrates one of these neurotransmitter reactions. As they act on the same paths and in the same regions of the body they only differ by their ornamentation which are the molecules themselves, animated by the energy that they take part in making us feel.
Each cup rests on a platter that stands on three cupped feet. It shows more indirect reactions in the body, that express themselves in a slower way. The three feet refer to the three elements that take part in this layer of influence: minerals, vitamins and certain fats (omega 3). They won't directly interact with the brain, but they are essential for it to work and they support the reactions of serotonin and dopamine for instance.
The second platter illustrates the particular influence of microbiota in the body. The microbiota are the living bacteria that inhabit our digestive system. Their function, the way they communicate with the brain, and the nature of the message or its temporal impact are yet unknown. But we know that they have an influence on our emotions and decision making. This sinuous object re-takes the shape of the intestine used in the cups, but makes it solid. Its small size and sinuous outline prevent it from clearly emerging from the table and the cloth. The whole object tends to be blurry as the influence that it illustrates. Its irregular textures were generated with images of those same bacteria.
Finally, cut out and stretched out plates are also placed on the table. They display the last known influence to happen in the body. It doesn't depend on the nature of the food we’ve eaten but on our love for it. These plates illustrate the Reward System, a chain of psychological reactions that « rewards » the brain when it accomplishes a basic instinct such as eating. It is illustrated by a plate, a first threshold to our body on which we choose what we are going to eat and cut up for the first time with our eyes and our knives. As with the other objects, they can be read from their top to their bottom, as the chosen food seems to provoke an abundance of dopamine, a molecule that is central to the Reward System. The plate act as a metonymy of the satisfaction that food can generate. But it can be a virtuous or a vicious a circle. This reaction depends only on the desire we have toward the food we eat: it can encourage our choices for healthy food or for junk food.