My project Image of Food with # explores trends in food images in our culture; beautiful images of food people post on various social media outlets. This Images of Foodproject shows how images of food have become an important and interesting subject matter in the contemporary world where food images become more popular than actual food. This new phenomenon has affected how I, as an artist, see food we eat and images of food.
We socialize and interact with others while we are cooking and eating. In the contemporary world, however, the definition and function of meals have been changed as more people eat alone and have diet restrictions because of food allergies and/or their desire to lose weight. These new phenomena affect how we consume and interact with food. People get pleasure out of looking at food instead of actually eating it. As a result, images of food are flooding social media sites, magazines, TV shows and specific types of Youtube videos called “mukbang” in which people watch others eat, as our lives turn from having food to watching food culture.
Since social media came to our lives, our life styles and how much we show of our personal lives has drastically changed. Images flood social media; food images are ubiquitous. People enjoy images of food on social media because they reveal not just what we eat from day to day, but also communicate where we eat, our social class, our taste, what gives us pleasure, and what we think gives others pleasure. Our aesthetic choices have changed as constrained by the frameworks of each social media platform.
My artwork relies on the process of capturing images of food. I use watercolor/ gouache painting and drawing as well as printmaking and 3 dimensional sculptures to create images of food to explore these trends of images of food in the contemporary culture.
We socialize and interact with others while we are cooking and eating. In the contemporary world, however, the definition and function of meals have been changed as more people eat alone and have diet restrictions because of food allergies and/or their desire to lose weight. These new phenomena affect how we consume and interact with food. People get pleasure out of looking at food instead of actually eating it. As a result, images of food are flooding social media sites, magazines, TV shows and specific types of Youtube videos called “mukbang” in which people watch others eat, as our lives turn from having food to watching food culture.
Since social media came to our lives, our life styles and how much we show of our personal lives has drastically changed. Images flood social media; food images are ubiquitous. People enjoy images of food on social media because they reveal not just what we eat from day to day, but also communicate where we eat, our social class, our taste, what gives us pleasure, and what we think gives others pleasure. Our aesthetic choices have changed as constrained by the frameworks of each social media platform.
My artwork relies on the process of capturing images of food. I use watercolor/ gouache painting and drawing as well as printmaking and 3 dimensional sculptures to create images of food to explore these trends of images of food in the contemporary culture.