WILDTHINGS was a unique collaboration between Oakland-based artist Joel Frank and Dana Younkin, the chef de cuisine at renowned San Francisco restaurant Boulevard. This was the third installment in a series of hybrid art and culinary events designed to foster dialogue between the art and tech communities, presented by Mixed Use, a San Francisco-based curatorial collective of which I am a founding member. The evening’s meal, featuring wild giant lobster, fresh asparagus, and wild berries, was inspired by Frank’s practice, which investigates the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and his large-scale site-specific work in industrial steel and glazed ceramic.