Edible anatomy from the Conjurer’s Kitchen
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These Giuseppe Arcimboldo plates are a great reminder that you are what you eat and they’re available in my Thinx Shop.
These bags from my Periodic Dinner Table collection will hold all the elements you need for a good dinner. You can find them in my Thinx Shop.
Food under the microscope: scanning electron micrographs of foodstuffs
Click on the images to find out which foods these are.
Garden Fresh by Agan Harahap
Harahap on his project:
Garden Fresh series investigates the shifting boundaries between humans and animals in today’s environment and the complex relationship between art and nature. It is like a fable about a journey undertaken by the animals when they venture into our daily lives. The animals are confronted by a new reality that is in conflict with their natural habits and habitats.
At the same time, when we see these ‘zoo-trapped’ animals in supermarkets, their most outstanding characteristics are isolated as their ‘only’ characteristics. The animals are stripped of their own identities and are used as empty vessels to be filled with the human drama of parody, satire and allegory. We cannot help but see animals from a human vantage point, and therefore in some sense all the works in the present exhibition are actually about us.
These adorable hedgehog cheese graters can be found in my Thinx Gifts store.
The moon just got a lot more lickable thanks to the British design agency Doshi Levien for Häagen-Dazs.
Selections from The Rice Field by Haruto Maeda
Maeda on his project:
Traveling in Asia or Africa, my heart warmed to rural scenery, beautiful nature, and tolerance of people in these regions. My connection to these areas was strengthened by my recollection of my boyhood memories of the pastorial scenes of my native Japan etched in my memory. My memories of the sea, forest, waterfalls and rice fields resonated in monochrome. The existence of the rice field, the staff of life to the Japanese, has had a great effect on the scenery, culture and the sense of morality of the Japanese. However, due to unplanned development forced upon many rural areas of Japan, the beauty and history of over 2000 years of rice harvesting is decreasing every year. Fearing the loss in a few years, I hurriedly began to photograph these areas. The scenery is silent, but the power of the photograph can touch people’s mind and make them recognize the importance of the cultural icon of the rice field.
Lives of Grass by Mathilde Roussel
Roussel on her work:
Lives of Grass sculptures show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. These sculptures strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat might make us more sensitive to food cycles in the world - of abundance, of famine - and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.
What Have You Got In Your Head? by Sara Asnaghi. Mmm…brains
The heart shaped cake by Lily Vanilli is perfect for any cardiologists or evil Disney queens in your life. It’s made out of red velvet sponge cake or blood-red cocoa cake, topped with blackcurrant and raspberry “blood” coulis. Considering I couldn’t eat a bagel because it was dyed an unappetizing green color for St. Patrick’s Day, I might struggle to enjoy this cake no matter how sweet it is.
Fruit and vegetable skulls by Dimitri Tsykalov.
From the Compost by Denis Roussel
Roussel on his work:
I have spent most of my life studying the sciences and earned a degree in chemistry and environmental science in France. When I moved to the United States, I decided to return to school and study art and, more specifically, photography.
I have always been under the impression that art and science were in various ways very similar. In the past they were not seen as completely separated enterprises. In earlier civilizations the artist and the scientist were often the same person. Art and science were seen as two complimentary sources for comprehension and knowledge. I think that their ultimate goals are still the same: to gain a better understanding of the world we live in and who we are. I also see both art and science as languages that allow us to explore and communicate ideas.
Photography is arguably the most suitable medium to build a bridge between art and science. It was born out of the marriage of artistic inquiry and scientific innovation. The two men credited for fathering photography illustrate the bi-disciplinary aspect of the medium. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre was an artist, famous for his enormous diaroma paintings, whereas William Henry Fox Talbot was a scientist, elected to the Royal Society in 1832.
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