Another option

These would be printed on vinyl stickers like the boxes and cut out around the edges. The idea is to depict food packaging - no actual food, but just the containers it comes in - colour coded based on the material, as per the airport customs security scanners. This would bring in ideas of materiality, food waste, consumerism... Also, they wouldn't need to be x-rayed as the vinyl stickers themselves bring in the element of transparency. The images would be photographs of food waste found at elam and at my home. Just another option...

Fruit and Veg X-rays, round 2

I went back to Mercy Radiology again a couple of weeks ago. They loved the bags that I gave them as a thank you for last time, and they are currently getting one of my prints framed for their waiting room. Yay! So I was pretty lucky in that they were more than happy for me to come back again.

This time I brought another massive basket of fruits and vegetables. The ones I've been using so far are getting a bit 'tired' and I felt that it was important to expand my image vocabulary in time for the final installation. We had such a blast, and this time I got to learn a bit more about how the machine works, how they fine-tune the settings, the effects and levels of radiation involved... It was really interesting. And I'm stoked with the images that I came away with...

Tests - installation for visiting critique

I spent a long time with the images I'd printed at V3, trying different arrangements with the vinyl sheets. Below are images of different compositions.

Documentation week 22: edamame pattern

A result of my conundrum over whether to use green or red prints on the mouse trap works.

Thinking a lot lately about optics, optical illusions, the 'mechanical eye' vs the human eye, printmaking/filmic 'flatness' and 3-dimensionality - i.e. the difference between an x-ray image and actual 3D object being scanned; again the dichotomy of food choices - soy in particular, as a supposed healthy/sustainable superfood and simultaneously a health nightmare and corrupt industry... anyway this is just a drawing really:

that came as a result of these initial patterns:

"Redamame." Hur hur.

Animal testing?

Jacqueline Fahey

Paintings by Jacqueline Fayey. I became interested in Fahey's work after being mesmerised by an excerpt of her second memoirs, Before I Forget, during her interview on national radio a couple of weeks ago.

These are the very paintings I'd make if I could. Fahey is everything I aspire to.

a few thoughts…
-appearance of 'flattening'
-collage effect - seemingly jumbled objects - movement? through composition?
-colour clusters and pattern fields - patchwork effect
-narrative - domestic scenes

Listener cover art

Really interested in this image...

Nick Veasy

The Adobe packaging design that George mentioned:

These images were made by an artist called Nick Veasy, a photographer who specialises in X-ray imagery.

His website, and here are some of his works:

And of course...

Insanely satisfying

"A real, non-manipulated photo of 98 different foods cut into perfectly little 2.5cm cubes.... Netherlands-based design studio Lernert & Sander ... transformed a wide variety of unprocessed foods (e.g. fruits, vegetables, meats) into tiny cubes and arranged them into a neat grid formation for this eye-popping photo."

WIP: Grocery bags

Planning to make some grocery bags as a thank you gift to the people at Mercy Radiology and Customs. Here's the design, after several hours of layer masking and ordering...

Photos of test prints on fabric (my first time printing halftone on textiles - I had no idea if it would work)