Practical output ideas

The images below contain both experiments and ideas for my final idea for the project. As well as this I have also written poetry due to a research method I was exploring and this is something that I am thinking of incorporating within my final piece.

I initially started with getting fruit with that being a major focus; I wanted to incorporate the actual fruit into my experimentation work because of this I did printing with the fruit as well as trying to paint with the fruit juices. Some issues I stumbled across were fruits being in season due to the time of year peaches and cherries are no longer in season so as an improvisation I used apricots and cherry juice instead. I feel this was effective to get an understanding of how to work with them and also made me aware that I would need to consider what fruit is in season if I were to continue using them within my work.

Fruit on its own:

First experimentation:

Second experimentation:

After doing some of my prints I wanted to play with layering them up but also trying to incorporate the images with it to. I printed the photographs out on tracing paper so it would be translucent and hopefully allow some of the bolder colours to come through.

Going digital:

After doing this I was wondering how I would transfer this into something digital as I still wanted learn something new in terms of software. So with this in mind using a drawing tablet and Adobe Fresco I played around trying to mimic the colours and involve the shapes.

Poem 1: The poem links to how women are objectified and represented as fruit. Name is undecided.

Apples red, a pear-shaped green

And peachy hue’s look so serene.

Yet a sweet taste can turn so sour

With demands of pears on the hour.

A subtle ask for a round peach,

Or cherries that one wishes to breach.

Fruit so mysterious from a far,

Given a personality at a bar.

A name, a number, even a heart,

Still just consumed after being made a tart.

The problem is not the fruit

Even if they are cute.

It’s the consumer unwilling to expand

On their views, as their life is so grand.

The purpose of fruit is more than just food

It is to be appreciated and not just in nude.

So let the fruit be beautiful in her own right

To enjoy, live and laugh in both day and night.

Poem 2: The peach.

A sunset with orange and yellow,

A soft round glow,

A sugar like sweetness,

This one peach holds.

With each bite one consumes;

One bite,

Two bites,

Three and gone.

All that remains is a stone.

An oval brown, dull inside,

How can a peach so sweet contain,

Contain, such an ugly center.

Is this the behind all,

Or are some pure to the core.

One will never truly know for each peach differs;

In shape, colour, size, not one is the same.

The mysterious peach in all her beauty,

Will remain a mystery to me.

Poem 3: Fruit bowl/ the many fruit

It can all start with a bowl of fruit

It’s as simple as that.

We’re told to eat 5 a day; fruit or veg

A morning glow illuminates the bowl

Filled with 1 of your 5 a day.

A soft peach or juicy Cherry,

A sweet apple from a tree

Eaten because we’re told.

We’re told its healthy but too much is bad

Poem 4: The wine drinker

One who drinks a wine so sweet,

Made from the juices of what was once fruit,

A healthy snack turned to damaging treat.

Poem 5: Sweet and sour

The brightest red,

A glossy shine,

A juice so sweet it’s so divine.

But then a sudden sour,

And a darkened seed,

The questions of is sweet or sour.

A cherry so simply,

Without design,

Society corrupts a fruit,

Giving it different purpose.

Not just for the kitchen but the bedroom too.

Used for fun and to consume.

What is a cherry?

Is it sweet or sour?