Inktober 2026: 30.10 – 30. Cookie
Some people dislike change, but I enjoy the fact that everything changes; it is precisely this that allows me to view the world differently—not as I did yesterday, and not in the way others might have expected me to.
Indeed, one’s worldview can be something imposed upon them. For instance, back when I was in school, if a teacher asked what I wanted to be, I was expected to name a profession like engineering, science, or politics—certainly not a trade, such as construction worker, carpenter, shop assistant, livestock farmer, or cook.
Had I said I dreamed of becoming a cook, I would have immediately been dismissed as "second-rate"—as someone lacking talent, unwilling to study, and interested only in manual labor.
Yet, long before the Industrial Revolution—and before the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and their followers—it was the skilled hands of artisans that gave us masterpieces of architecture and painting, and taught us what it truly means for something to be of high quality or delicious.
One could hold a dozen university degrees and still remain a dogmatist—someone who, for example, might assume that baking a cookie is a simple task.
True, anyone can bake a cookie—just as anyone can build a house—but creating something truly, unforgettably delicious is a skill far from universal.
Even a professional cook who has studied the culinary arts long and hard cannot always produce a masterpiece of shortcrust or other pastry—let alone invent an entirely new type of cookie using a unique, original technique. Today, as part of the Inktober 2026 ink-drawing challenge—where the theme of the day is "Cookie"—I decided to depict a lesson on the production of cookies and other sweet culinary masterpieces at some provincial vocational school for cooking. It’s the kind of place that even clowns and comedians would mock—people who have never, ever created anything with their own hands, not even... a single cookie!
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| Category: | Art, Photography, digital art. |
| Tools: | Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 |
| Location: | Ukraine |
| Author: | Author @barski. In my publications you will see only my author's works. |
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There’ll be more and more people who’ve never baked a biscuit, or simply warmed up some milk in a saucepan on the hob, or – worse still – put a kettle of water on to boil. There are even those who say they manage to let water boil dry. I’m not one of them, though – I’ve melted kettles on the hob because I forgot about them, hahaha.
I can bake, mind you, and the problem with baking and cooking is that I often don’t like the food I get from outside, and it certainly is an art. Good bakers have become rare, just like good chefs – or should I say, passionate chefs and bakers.
I’ve no idea what schools here expect of you, and generally speaking, I reckon teachers too often pigeonhole pupils into tiers. It doesn’t matter what choice you make. Not that there’s much to choose from – there are careers fairs, and you always see the same things: the army, road workers, bakers, and that’s about it. If you want to become an archaeologist, no one in primary school can tell you which educational path you should follow. It’s quite frustrating, especially because in the Netherlands, children are actually expected to know by the age of 10 or 11 what they want to do for the rest of their lives, because by the age of 11 or 12 you’re in secondary school and you’ve got a set of subjects which, if you’re unlucky, you won’t be able to use at all. It took me a while to analyse your drawing, but I think that’s actually part of its charm – there’s certainly something to be seen in it.
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There’s a saying: Don’t go where you aren’t welcome... and if your children are being mistreated or marginalized there, then there’s even more reason not to tie their fate—or even your own—to that place, or perhaps even that country. Maybe it’s not worth living somewhere where the laws are stacked against your children and their future? :) Just thinking out loud, lol.
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