This work extends Santina Amato’s long-standing investigation into domestic space, material precarity, and feminized labor. Recasting the classical still-life tradition, Amato replaces symbolic fruit and flowers with bread dough — a living, unstable material loaded with cultural memory and the repetitive labor of nourishment. Positioned alongside everyday household objects, the dough becomes an active force rather than a passive ingredient, swelling, sinking, and shifting the balance of each composition. In doing so, Amato transforms familiar domestic items into carriers of tension, vulnerability, and time. The work highlights the instability embedded within home and routine, while foregrounding the often-invisible labor historically assigned to women and caregivers. Through this quietly disruptive material intervention, Amato reorients the still-life genre toward themes of embodiment, migration, and the fragility of domestic stability, inviting viewers to reconsider the emotional and political weight of ordinary objects.