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Offal- trends in eating

1: Veal’s tripe, 2: Lamb’s heart, 3: Ox tail
Ok, so here are the final images from the last project. I previously posted the short gifs I made from the digital files (you can see them here) but these are the proper stuff.

I’m interested in different aspects of food production and consumption as well as in dynamics that exist within the food industry. I find it strange how even such a trivial activity as eating could not escape being drawn into a net of trends and fashions. And so I looked at many different ones: Organic food, Fair Trade, Raw Food, In-vitro meat, From plate-to-paddock, Control Obsession and finally… Offal eating.

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Here’s a little miszmasz {meesh-mash} of images I made recently. What you see is a series of the same picture of myself (it became a gif very spontaneously, just a few minutes ago) but with a different ‘filling’ applied to the dress. Both, the self-portrait and the filling (a still life of a dead mussel) were taken with a 35mm camera then scanned and joined together in Photoshop. I experimented a lot the day I made those and really really enjoyed it. I gave myself a task of producing as many different variations of the images I had, as possible, without necessarily focusing on the quality of each individual one. Through this, I hoped to stirr up my sleepy creativity a bit. Not sure if it worked yet, but I really had a good time- I miss the times when I just messed around with images on my computer aimlessly- there was some good stuff coming out of it sometimes!

Read more to see some still images and more gifs.