Displayed on the 'conversation table' as a last minute edition to our exhibition:
-thinking about what x-raying really involves - the idea of seeing through something, seeing all of it - and the reasons for doing so (scientific investigation, health, usually searching for something damaged or broken)
-food as the object of investigation
-dissection
-lengthening - mass production, GMO, the idea of altering something to make it go further
-the petri dishes are like a stack of plates - each layer could be served to someone, like a sample dish at the supermarket - the plastic reinforces this - I suppose this is McLuhan-style observation/connection between the fields of science and food
This work got a few great reactions. Many people thought it was a corn cob, from the shape / length and the green colour.
Unfortunately it went quite rotten & smelly after a week on display:
-next step: I might scan/print the fruit segments to recreate this effect but in a non-perishable art medium - the idea of reproduction, synthetic food production, cloning...
-could create hybrid forms by splicing and combining numerous objects...
