For “Edible Abstractions” my aim was to use light and
shadow to abstract four different items of food such that their images no
longer reflected their original functions.
The choice to use food objects came from the reactions I
had when walking through a supermarket past the fresh produce and bakery
sections. I found that when looking at the produce my first and only reaction
was one of hunger and how I could transform the ingredients before me into a
tasty meal, and thought that anyone who viewed images of food would think the
same. Consequently I decided to attempt to transform or abstract these
ingredients so that not only their images were changed but a viewers reaction
to them.
These images are all abstracted using different lighting
situations, presenting each object with a select combination of coloured lighting, low
exposure, shadowing and long exposures to achieve abstractions of
transformations to varying ends. This series also used principals and
concepts from Sian Bonnell’s series “Scenic
Cookery” which attempted to
capture a similar aesthetic.
I feel the series is relatively successful in regards to
abstracting the objects, though in attempting to transform the objects into
something different I found that simply modifying the lighting was alone not
enough for an effective transformation, but putting a transformed object into a
related situation (for example, if it
were a piece of fruit transformed into a building – placing it with a city as a
backdrop) would have strengthened the transformation and thus the image much
better.
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