Mothership I–III installed · Zasu, New Orleans
Mallory Page
New Orleans · A Site-Specific Commission
Three monumental 10-foot canvases by Mallory Page, created as a site-specific commission for Chef Sue Zemanick's restaurant Zasu — a work born from deep friendship and shared sensibility.
Sue's seafood cuisine carries a primal, almost alchemical quality — divinely feminine and transcendent — connecting diners directly to the oceanic source, beyond technique, training, or awards.
"In early 2019, a dish Sue prepared shocked me. It connected me to a sensory language with food I've never encountered before. I was immediately aware that we shared an understanding that, honestly, still remains to be articulated — and I think that's so beautiful." — Mallory Page
Granted rare creative freedom to reimagine the space before its post-pandemic reopening, Mallory Page approached the commission with intention and care. Sue's request was clear: less vibrant, more healing, calming, feminine — a direction that aligned closely with where Mallory's practice was already moving.
Mothership I–III installed · Zasu, New Orleans
When spirit grows heavy, it turns to water.
Carl Gustav Jung
I — The Deep
II — The Passage
Neither purely water nor land — a realm that bridges the deep, dark unconscious with lived human experience.
Drawing from Clarissa Pinkola Estés's archetype of the Medial Woman — who navigates between reason and image, matter and spirit, the topside world and the underworld — and from Jung's insight that when spirit grows heavy it turns to water, these fluid, abstracted canvases serve as a psychic passage.
The process was meditative and performative: each canvas emerged through Mallory's sustained, intentional movement and a quiet attunement to the space's needs. The materiality echoes the fluidity of water and the sensory transcendence of Sue's cooking — parallel ways of tending to healing, and to the collective psyche in this moment.
Mothership invites diners into the deep feminine — something older than memory — where the soul's path leads through water toward renewal. It is both homage to Sue's gift and a quiet vessel for restoration.
III — Renewal · with Mothership I beyond
This work grows from a deep friendship between Mallory Page and Chef Sue Zemanick. Both practice a form of alchemy — Sue through food, Mallory through paint — each a way of tending to healing and to the collective psyche.
Believing in the energetic transfer inherent in art, Mallory built the environment to nurture rather than impose. The paintings hold the healing qualities of darkness where wonder and treasure become visible.
Mallory Page · Chef Sue Zemanick · Zasu, New Orleans
Work
Mothership
Triptych
Scale
10 feet each
Site-specific
Location
Zasu Restaurant
New Orleans
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Context
Post-pandemic
reopening, 2021