Tag: 2021-04 Basement Archeology

  • Place Settings #2

    Place Settings #2

    In these images I’m developing a more conceptual offering. I’m playing with shadows, light, colour, and reflections and distortions through water. These all connect with memory, the past and bringing the past into the present.

  • Place Settings #1

    Place Settings #1

    Once the food is prepared, the next logical step is to consume it. A place setting defines a location at the table. It provides the tools to eat. The arrangement aligns with convention. The knife…

  • Prepared Food

    Prepared Food

    Reading through my mother’s recipe book I came across her date and nut cake. I decided to make it, in part because of the memory of it and in part because I wanted to bake…

  • Food Preparation and Whole Ingredients

    Food Preparation and Whole Ingredients

    I modelled this image in the tradition of the Renaissance still life. I chose that style because I wanted to implicitly set the frame of reference back in time. John Berger submits that such paintings…

  • Ice Cubes

    Ice Cubes

    While I was taking pictures of some found glasses, I had a thought about using ice as a prop. The inter-play of light and shadow created various different shapes. For example, in the first one…