FRUITS OF OUR LABOUR

Documentation of my sewn fruit decaying, after being left out in the sun. I am watching the way they shrivel and contort as they become older.

DOODLE

TOOTY FRUITY

Continuing form Urs Fischers fruit I experimented with sewing together peelings and fruit itself, photographing and drawing them along the way. I will also document and watch the process of decay.

OODLES OF NOODLES

Using different types of pasta got me thinking about the ways in which I could convert pasta into textiles and enable it to not look like pasta. After replicating Urs Fischer's 'house of bread', first out of shreddies and then in knitting, I decided to do a similar sort of thing with pasta. Spaghetti and noodles are very malleable and bendy after cooking them, so I spent my wednesday night attempting to knit/crochet/plait/knot these little strings of pasta. It wasn't the most successful of my endeavours as the spaghetti in particular kept breaking. However these pictures document some of my experiments...

After looking at Liu Wei's 'Love it! Bite it!' exhibition I tried to think of ways to imitate and change his building technique in my own way. I firstly decided that perhaps an edible food type that is most varied and easy to work with is pasta. I collected together all the different types of pasta I had in my house and moulded them together hap-haphazardly to create my building.

LIU WEI

My auntie t0ld me about an exhibition she had seen at the Saatchi gallery in London, featuring a city made of dog food. Intrigued, I researched into this and found Liu Wei's city, entitled 'Love it! Bite it!', that was exhibited in the gallery in 2004. What is so incredible about this sculpture is that it is not only amazingly intricate, but the fact that it is made of edible dog chews, yet is still beautiful. Painstakingly crafted, the ornate columns, cornices and domes portray Wei's meticulous attention to detail.

I have experimented with used tea bags, manipualting them into forms and structures, similar to Valeria Burgoa's work.

VALERIA BURGOA

After researching artists who use evryday objects in their work, I came across Valeria Burgoa. One of her collections includes the use of teabags, creating sculptural pieces that are quite beautiful. She has experimented and changed the bags, some being more 3 dimensional, others being quite flat. She has also emptied some of the tea bags, creating a completely different effect that is softer and more delicate.

AN APPLE A DAY

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