Assignment 2

RATIONALE:

 I was very inspired by the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. They photographed a series of different foods and made them into characters. They had made people out of different meats and made an amateur looking city that these characters live in. I liked this idea; I wanted to experiment with food too. My other inspiration was Wolfgang Tillmans. In one of his works he photographed food ripening on a window sill. This gave me the idea of watching the decaying process.

 I developed this idea more to the effect the environment has on certain objects. How in time and exposure to the environment, objects change form and often identity.

 I took 4 different arrangements of objects and photographed them over time and documented their change. My first progression is a bunch of flowers in a jar with water. I photographed these flowers over about 2 weeks. The changes were radical. The petals started to drop and the water became less and changed colour. My second progression was of an apple and a banana. This progression I also took over about 2 weeks. My most amazing finding was the insect life that these decaying fruits attracted and how these insects contributed to the decaying process. My third progression was a jug of milk. I took this over 2 weeks. The viscosity of the milk was the most apparent change. This progression showed the biggest change of identity in my opinion. My last progression was of a bone that we feed to our domestic dogs. I always thought it was interesting how our dogs who we perceive as being mellow with us as its owner, can cause this much change to an object with the strength of their jaws and teeth. I took a photograph of the bone before the change, in the process of the change and then at the end when it had changed form.

 This decaying process we don’t actually take notice of. It’s just a part of life, but I wanted to show how interesting this process is by documenting the changes.