Candy Art and Reminscing of a Previous Project

Last class, a group presented a project where the medium was candy. I thought it was quite interesting because of how different of a medium it was. I've never thought to create a piece of art using candy. I did think it was a refreshing way to make art, and reminded me of a project I did in my last college.

At my last college, I had an art teacher who wanted us to create something using edible objects. The main focus was that whatever we created was going to be "marketed and sold" to the masses. For my project I had played off of the edible fruit arrangements. I thought, well if they can make flowers out of fruit, why not vegetables? And to push the edible art aspect, I decided instead of using already made bowls that I would create my own. But how? I started thinking of how pretty glass bowls and stained glass and how interesting it would be to combine those? But how? Instantly, I thought of citrus fruits. So I dehydrated oranges, grapefruits and lemons. This was a very long process because I needed the citrus fruits to be entirely dried up before the next step. I then adhered the dried fruit to a plastic bowl and glass plates. I was quite pleased with how it turned out! And to finish it up I added vegetable "flowers"/kabobs. I made sure to carve into the radishes to make something symbolizing a rose.

 

My college teacher loved the idea, and was quite pleased with my project. But getting back to this lesson, I thought it was quite fun to learn different ways to manipulate the candy. And the demo that the group did was interesting. I would have never thought of using skittles to make paint. And it was a fun project to do. We got a chance to sketch our ideas, practice on a sample and make a final piece. While I really loved the project, I did understand the critique that they got. It was harder to come up with fine detailed work (at a highschool-college) level with the candy in my opinion. My work ended up looking simplistic. However, that might just be because we didnt have the time a regular class would have had. An interesting twist to the project that the art we made had to depict either a song title or lyric from a song that was from the Beatles. I really enjoyed this collaboration between art and music. I ended up with "I'm looking through you" and I used the lyric line "Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight." to create my piece.

(im not sure why they are sideways because they arent saved that way but oh well, technology flaw!)