World

In this world, from when you are 14, you must choose a different resource than water and food to survive off.

With the resources of the Earth slowly getting more and more scarce, scientists have found a way to rewire the brain in such a way so that it tricks itself into believing that it can feed off of your own creations, your art.

The world split up in tribes. These tribes took upon their small community the deed of slowly allowing their body to accustom to this new way of feeding. It took hundreds of years, but now, each one of these tribes, can feed off of a different art form.

Some feed off of their drawings and depending on what they draw and how well they draw it, it gives them certain nutrients.

Others feed off of their own music. Each note acting as an ingredient in the final dish. So, when cooking an omelette, your mom would play a certain song. When preparing a glass of juice, you would sing a certain melody.

There are the cardists that feed off of performing cuts. When they perform for somebody else, the person watching can taste what the other is performing. Cardistry cuts are now split up into tastes (sweet, sour, salty, spicy). Routines are dubbed dishes. Cardistry Restaurants have opened up with professional flourishers cooking for people.

Plot Idea

The story follows an inter-galactic journalist in his journey thorough different dimensions. Here, he falls in love with how art can be tasted and felt in ways he has never experienced before. Ultimately forgets about eating and dies.

Upon having died, he resurrects into a different dimension, from where he continues his journey. This easy way the story treats death, later into the story, will be understood more as a philosophical death than a physical death.

This universe is holding an inter-galactic Cardistry Cooking Championship and end up scouting the best cardistry chefs from every dimension. Bit along with Lon are the ones chose to represent earth. We follow the story through their eyes as they experience the shapes and forms of each creature that performs cardistry, the way they do it and what cuts these have created.

If you illustrate this, you can even go as far as teaching cuts that require 3 or multiple hands, feet or other body parts, gadgets and gaffs, and whatsonot.