Flag idea

I recently printed one of my fruit box images onto fabric, thinking of doing a series of flags. In my final crit, my classmates discouraged this idea, and after some reflection I understand why. Bringing in the 'flag' idea, which I thought might help with my reference to globalisation/borders, is too topical-bandwagon and detracts from the real focus of my project.

Documentation: scanned cross-sectioned fruits

As mentioned in this post, I wanted to translate the petri dish fruits into another non-perishable (& therefore artificial/synthetic) medium. Working quickly, I cut up and scanned the individual pieces, then photoshopped them to clean them up (remove bubbles, imperfections, etc.)
It felt as if, by deconstructing these plant-foods and retouching the images, I was doing a sort of digital/aesthetic version of genetic engineering.

The resulting images:

Some detail shots:

(The plan was to CMYK screen print these onto the petri dishes, but this fell through - more info to come.)

Documentation week 22: petri dishes

 

 Displayed on the 'conversation table' as a last minute edition to our exhibition:

-thinking about what x-raying really involves - the idea of seeing through something, seeing all of it - and the reasons for doing so (scientific investigation, health, usually searching for something damaged or broken)
-food as the object of investigation
-dissection
-lengthening - mass production, GMO, the idea of altering something to make it go further
-the petri dishes are like a stack of plates - each layer could be served to someone, like a sample dish at the supermarket - the plastic reinforces this - I suppose this is McLuhan-style observation/connection between the fields of science and food

This work got a few great reactions. Many people thought it was a corn cob, from the shape / length and the green colour.

Unfortunately it went quite rotten & smelly after a week on display:

-next step: I might scan/print the fruit segments to recreate this effect but in a non-perishable art medium - the idea of reproduction, synthetic food production, cloning...
-could create hybrid forms by splicing and combining numerous objects...