Message
~Social commentary
PROMISE - Caroline McCarthy
TO DO:
- Explore the artwork below by looking at the images and reading the text provided.
- Discuss amongst your group what you think this McCarthy is trying to say. Come to a consensus (everyone agrees on a meaning).
- Submit your ideas in the survey.
- Read other people's responses.
- Have a second discussion.
- Things to consider:
- Has your opinion changed?
- Did most people agree with you? disagree with you?
- Did anyone have the same answer?
- Has your group changed their mind regarding the meaning?
- Has your opinion changed?
Promise, 2003
Dinner Packaging, Plant Pots, Wire, Wood, Lighting;
Dimensions: 366 x 183 x 122cms
Promise is made from over 200 different dinner packaging boxes sourced from local supermarkets. It considers the idea of garnish - this decorative cliché of food presentation - where each garnish is cut from its dinner packaging and folded to stand up in the centre of individual plant pots.
The plant pots are arranged according to garnish species, the display at first resembling that found in a garden center. At close range, however, illusion gives way to artifice as the seedlings are seen to be cut from a bed of wholly manufactured produce.
Dinner Packaging, Plant Pots, Wire, Wood, Lighting;
Dimensions: 366 x 183 x 122cms
Promise is made from over 200 different dinner packaging boxes sourced from local supermarkets. It considers the idea of garnish - this decorative cliché of food presentation - where each garnish is cut from its dinner packaging and folded to stand up in the centre of individual plant pots.
The plant pots are arranged according to garnish species, the display at first resembling that found in a garden center. At close range, however, illusion gives way to artifice as the seedlings are seen to be cut from a bed of wholly manufactured produce.