Peter Menzel, from the book, "Hungry Planet: What the World. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world–including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France–and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
I started with these picture as a first inspiration of my research, they represent how shocking the amount of food, that human all around the world consume, is.
The thought, from theses pictures, that i think is the one that will lead me the most for my research is how most of the people in this pictures faces show pride: they are really happy with what they are exposing. The food on the table looks like a price they received. it look like in most of culture, having more food at home or having just a big mass of food shows that you are wealthy and you can feed your family well. These images are just so materialistic.
Martin is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
This picture is dominated by a rubbish bin attached to a pillar, which is placed in the centre of the composition. The wire mesh bin is overfilled with fish and chip wrappers and soft drink cans and overflowing debris litters the ground. A young couple sits on a bench near the bin, eating chips from Styrofoam plates. The man offers a bite of his meal to their daughter, who turns away, apparently uninterested. Her pushchair is parked on piles of chip wrappers. A second child stands behind the bench eyeing the food. The scene shows a certain abstraction and regardless behavior to what they consume but more about what waist they produce. I strongly believe that most of the people still ignore the fact that the world is terribly in danger. And that they are the main cause, but flee all responsibility.
This picture is from the French photographer Natacha lesueur, born 1971, No title, 28 x 61 cm. (11 x 24 in.)
It is a quite surrealistic image showing various mouthes with teeth replaced by food. Again this relates to the massive food consumption and overproduction. I attache it to the thought that§ one day our genetics will transform themselves and we will be affected by the way we live today. Imagining a world where people start transforming themselves into food, or become reduce to the level of food. This idea led me to the next reference, which is nothing less than the amazing painting of Guissepe Arcimboldo.
Liu Bolin is a Chinese performance artist and photographer known for using chameleon-like methods to immerse himself in environments, earning him the nickname “The Invisible Man.” This one picture is him disappearing in a section of fruits and vegetables in a supermarket. I chose it as a reference liking a to the vision of human melting himself with food and this massive mass consumption that we do.
However, in the 16th century, painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo turned the genre on its head with his topsy-turvy Composite Heads.
Arcimboldo’s applied art endeavors and conventional official portraits were celebrated. However, he was—and is—most well-known for his peculiar paintings of people made out of found objects. Called Composite Heads, these allegorical portraits feature busts made out of everything from fruits and vegetables to sea creatures and library books.
Being trapped, suffocating, lost air, trapped, lost of hearing, , perfectly glazed surface, soft, shiny,translucide, transparent, waterproof, light,
I did some research is on a law that exist in the United Kingdom about the shape of the bananas: and apparently there is a certain curve of the banana that needs to be respected in order for it to figure in the supermarkets.This fact is so funny and ridiculous that all the bananas that orange curved and off or have a strange Kurth are not excepted and may be thrown away or not used all destroyed and if this is the case it is just such a big food waste for a matter of curviness this fact is so funny and ridiculous that all the bananas that aren’t curved enough or have a strange Kurth are not excepted and may be thrown away or not used or destroyed and if this is the case it is just such a big food waste for a matter of curviness. So it made me think of the sculpture made of banana skin created by Matt James stones . It had a huge impact of my on my work app because of how the banana skin was a sampled us to buy pens which prefers it to a garment also to the world of fashion but I will not only how it is connected , but also by its shape and the use of all what is not interesting in the banana. As for example the top part of the banana that is always thrown away, the etiquettes on the banana and the part when the banana starts to become brownish. this stage of the fruit is actually where the most vitamins come in but it is perceived as molded or old and therefore automatically thrown away.
This picture by Sébastien Michel inspired me by the way this man face is filled with fast-food, wrapped with plastic. It removes his ability to see, becoming the food he eat's. The mask prevents him from his senses: he can't properly see anymore, breath, smell, eat . He mixes himself with the mass.
These head make are another creation of the photographer and artist Natacha lesueur. I like the way she uses in most of her picture the theme of food and how she incorporates it with different parts of the body.here she created helmets consisted only with thin layers of different vegetables and fruits. there are hold together with a thin layer of transparent plastic on the top. It represents the human as a product and shows a certain incapacity of escaping the thought of hunger.
The Francis Bacon exhibition in Paris, at the Centre George Pompidou, was one of my first exhibition were I saw so many Bacon paintings assembled together. His paintings are so powerful and there is such a strong aura coming out them. The brutally he shows in it of people ripping off their skins, bodies fusing together threw their flesh is fascinating. I also thought of how interesting it was that he didn't liked to use a model or a real persons to paint from, but was most of the time only using his memory. A lot of the paint nags where also auto representations. I can relate the physical pain that his creatures feel to the insecurity of a person with her own skin and her relationship with it. Trying to modify and sculpt it into something else whatever it takes. an unsatisfied feeling with yourself, confined in a body you don't like and that doesn't correspond to your soul.
This Is another series of pictures of Martin paar showing here comes Chinese bananas wrapped in a plastic packaging
Last evening I had a conversation after dinner about Veganism and why it is positive for the society that we live in today. I think that in the perfect world we wouldn’t need to prive ourself from any food. But because of how enormous the amount of food is that we produce and of how much we consume of it we need to start doing something to make it less. All the animals killed and all them animals thrown away because of us to the people that decide to go vegetarian it’s just in general the waste of food that is so ridiculous because in some places people over eat and others they don’t have enough even to make a bread I really liked in this cover of this book how it was presented and how the colors were used the use of the green shows a really positive reaction and is always connected to nature and what is right to do there are only vegetables on the table and the lady has a really big smile on their face but it is also such an old version of it that shows that going vegan or going vegetarian has its history and isn’t something that started only in the 20th era.
This sculptures made by David Altmedj was in one of the rooms when I visited le Musée des arts decorative in Paris. When I first saw it I knew right away that it perfectly supports the researches I made for this project and the idea of a human polluted skin. The artist mixes species and genera, creating human hybrids with a vivid animal quality. Through the stance of the legs , this work calls to mind ancient statuary. However, disturbing elements proliferate on its surface: : coconut, grapes, hands, even cats ears... He was holding in one of his hand a branch covered in flowers as symbol of peace and environment. But he looked more coming out off bin of trash/ science lab then from nature itself. It could represent a vision of the future human: a creature not having a proper consistency or color, composed by all the thing we are throwing away each day. A wet, decomposing, infected, and looking sick body.
This painting caption my attention for its color palette, and of the different tones of the creature skin: turning from a soft rosé to an sick light green and yellow. I connect it to a vision of the human in the future becoming a mutant. And mainly of the cause of pollution and food waste. He will transform himself from the change of our planet and the toxic substitutes and pesticides that is put on the food an fruit to make them last longer.
Louise bourgeois has experimented with the body the whole life , her art has always inspired me by how provocative and new thinking it was. finding these pictures Accidentally of her hands holding each other photographed by Alex van Gelder. Made me focus on the way here skin looked so sucked away from youth and life. How her bones were showing up and here skin was dry and covered by wrinkles.
Age has always been for me somethings really sad and I have always felt a feeling of nostalgia watching or contemplating old people.
Orange is a multi-faceted color with different meanings in different cultures. The hue is quite prominent in Asian religions, and many monks and holy men wear orange robes. In Confucianism, orange is the color of transformation. The word for orange in India and China derives from saffron, which is the most expensive dye in the area. This demonstrates the importance of orange in these cultures, where it is seen as the perfect balance between the perfection of yellow and the power of red.
The use of orange, more appropriately saffron, in Buddhism is connected with the pigments that were readily available to dye holy robes. Symbolically it’s connected to perfection and the highest state of illumination. It can also be intended to signify the quest for knowledge. In addition to Buddhism, orange is a color found Hinduism. Krishna is often seen dressed in yellow-orange.
because of that perfection seen in it, It suits with the idea I want to express of the skin of an orange being already an perfection.
O'hara
One day I am thinking of
a color: orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life.
I noticed that sometimes I find the best research images by just searching through the books in the library without typing in one of the computers the word down that I’m recent researching on for this image I was in the photograph sections and was basically picking all the books that had a connection with bodies.By looking at all of them one by one I discovered this one by John Hilliard shot in 1996 and what made me notice it and put it on my research page is the supposed session by looking at all of them one by one I discovered this one by John Hilliard shot in 1996 and what made me notice it and put it on my research page is how these two pictures are layered and how they are edited.