Pat Lasch, Wedding Tower

1978

Pat Lasch, a longtime resident of the Coachella Vallery, was inspired to create this sculpture by her father, who was a master pastry chef and taught her the tricks of the trade. Wedding Tower depicts frosting with paint and sprinkles with pins and pearls, while expressing the artist's interest in cakes as markers of life’s milestones. Lasch noted, “Cakes marked time. Birthdays, weddings, communions, bar mitzvahs — cakes were the witnesses to our living process."