23rd oct food project

This week I have had more inspiration and have come up with a lot of ideas towards my project. In my spider diagram I looked into a variety of things including obesity, aphrodisiacs, nutrients, science and structure, nutrients, disintegration and decay, food and their associations with holiday seasons, pop art (involving the Campbell’s soup image), the increase/decrease of something (eating/preparing), eating disorders, where you can buy food, and programmes on television involving food.
From these ideas I began looking into obesity, and the diseases that it causes. From this is then starting researching Gunther Von Hagens who i remembered had done an episode on his programme on an obese man where he cut him down the centre of his body so that people were able to see the effects that fat has on the body. you could see how clogged up his arteries were and how bad too much fat really is for the body and I found this interesting, and so then I looked further into his work and I realised how interested I am in the way the body works and all of the structures that are in place to keep the body together. This has given me the idea of looking into anatomy and perhaps including this in my final piece.
I then began looking at the book 'Anatomy For The Artist' and saw that Leonardo Divinci did a lot of drawings and research into anatomy. This inspired me to do more.
Once I had looked into this I thought it would be a good idea to research more into the other topics to give me more ideas and so I started looking into aphrodisiacs in food and which foods that are aphrodisiacs but I didn’t find this interesting enough to inspire me any further although i could perhaps so something on how food effects the brain and how it can even treat illnesses, aches, mental issues and diseases.
I then briefly looked into decay, eating disorders and what types there are as well as the different artists that use food in their art work. this was an interesting thing to look into because of the work of Andy Warhol, I love his work so it was fun researching him. not only Andy Warhol but also Banksy, as he did a Mickey take version of the Campbell's soup can whilst mimicking the image but with a Tesco value soup can instead of Campbell's soup.
this week I also took my work into the kitchen with me and into my everyday life. this was quite fun to do. I had prepared a meal for myself and once I had sat down to eat it I took photographs of the food after every mouthful that I took until the meal was finished, the final outcome looked really good because the bizarre look of the food disintegrating into nothing which looked/seemed like it was by itself. one I had eaten the meal I put my camera on to the athlete setting and got my friend to take loads of photographs of me licking the plate after. it has an amusing quality to it.

This week I also decided to experiment in drawings of anatomy. I Drew 3 images, one of a man simply as muscle, no skin, I then also drew a skeleton with only muscles across the pecks and then I also drew a mans head, again just muscle. I was impressed with my work and my drawing skills considering they should be pretty dusty at the moment. I know I will be able to become better in time though (hopefully) I don’t know what I am going to use these for yet, maybe nothing but I think that it will help me come up with ideas. It has definitely pushed me more onto wanting to link my project with anatomy. I think I may do it on how food affects the body.