An individually packaged sugar cookie bearing the image of Captain James Cook, created as part of Lundburg and Tallett’s artwork Edible Relic in Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument.
In the gallery, 72 cookies are presented on a rotating retail display rack. By making the image edible—and available for purchase—the work plays with the languages of souvenir, relic, commemoration, and consumption.
Cookies were produced in four color variations—gray, navy, lavender, and mint green—and with three different sticker texts on the reverse:
TAKE.
HOLD.
LOOK.
EAT.
REMEMBER.
REPEAT.
HISTORICAL INGREDIENTS
British Imperial Expansion
Christian Missionization
Scientific Exploration
Sugar Plantation Economies
Tourism
Settler Colonialism
Military Occupation
Selective Memory
May contain traces of resistance.
WARNING
Consumption may cause:
uncomfortable laughter
historical reflection
conflicting emotions
difficult conversations
Side effects vary.
Individual colors and sticker variations are selected at random. For orders of multiple cookies, we will make every effort to include a mix of colors and sticker texts, depending on availability.
Sally Lundburg and Keith Tallett are Hawaiʻi Island–based artists whose collaborative practice brings together mixed media, cultural research, image-making, and language. Their work often considers how histories are remembered, circulated, and transformed through objects, images, words, popular culture, and everyday experience, sometimes using humor and irony to unsettle familiar narratives.
Lundburg is a mixed-media artist and visual storyteller whose independent work explores patterns of movement, memory, environmental change, and place through painting, collage, photography, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Her work has been presented at the Honolulu Biennial (now Hawaiʻi Triennial), Honolulu Museum of Art, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.
Tallett is a mixed-media artist, second-generation surfboard shaper, and practitioner whose work brings cultural knowledge and practices into dialogue with contemporary art. His practice spans painting, sculpture, wood and stone carving, surfcraft, and installation. He has exhibited nationally, including at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Capitol Modern, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculptor and Painter Grant.
Together, Lundburg and Tallett collaborate through Manukai, a shared creative practice rooted in Hawaiʻi Island. Their exhibition Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument (2026) examines historical memory, commemoration, colonial narratives, and souvenir culture through collaborative works that move between sculpture, installation, food, printed matter, and wearable objects.