Sandwiches = love. (Picture: jenifoto)

Here’s today’s reminder to thank your mum for all the stuff she does for you. Or make her a sandwich.

Jessica Olah, an artist from New York has just launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund a major art project in honour of her mum: her mission to make 2,340 peanut butter and jam (we’re British, and so refuse to give in and call it jelly) sandwiches over the course of 5 days.

Because PB&Js are love, in carb form.

Jessica decided to do the project as a creative way to pay homage to all the important things her mother has done for her over the years, including waking up early to make her a sandwich every day throughout her school days.




She’s making 2,340 sandwiches to pay back her mum for the ones she made, one for each school day from Kindergarten to 12th Grade.

Jessica will complete the project in a gallery space in New York, where members of the public can pop in to watch the process. Once made, the sandwiches will be donated to the Bowery Mission, a charity in New York which feeds the homeless and hungry.

The Indiegogo asks for donations to make the project happen, with $11,000 (around £7,250) needed to cover the cost of ingredients, gallery rental, transportation and artsy materials.

Donating to the cause can get you all kinds of treats, like a handpainted PB&J art piece, a picnic with Jessica, and an empty jam jar.

The project’s PB&J theme takes on a special significance for Jessica and her artsy connection with her mum. Her mum’s a photographer, and back in 1989 she created a photo series dedicated to making peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

Jessica now wants to blow up those photos to poster size and display them in the gallery, too.

She says: ‘It’s a way to show my mum I appreciate everything she did for me when I was growing up.’

‘She made me sandwiches every single day.’

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