Some more compositions…
Banana, separated and stacked alternately, faced in opposing directions so two forms overlap in 3d space:
Just one form on the OHP:
A few plates on the lightbox
Projected
Each item at full size:
Spare petri dishes to make the height even and the smaller forms ‘hover’
All of them stacked together - extremely fragile!! (Would need a way to connect them with glue or a sort of frame…)
Below: each piece divided into 3. This works out perfectly to scale, as the original cross-sections were 5mm thick and the petri dishes are 15mm high. The resulting ‘stretched’ sculpture was 3 times longer than the original piece of fruit, so dividing this into 3 returns them to their original size.
I like the conceptual implications of this process. The process and ethics of CLONING is a topic I’m really fascinated by. (Bananas are all genetically identical.) For me it speaks to the idea of genetic modification to produce higher yields, leading to a product which might be more resistant or bountiful but which perhaps becomes ‘less’ in other ways, perhaps less tasty or nutritious or healthy… There is no winning argument here and no magic solution, it’s always a compromise.
