Gemma Anderson

Beautiful Bruiser

“Society Values beauty. By investing time in the process of ornamenting a particular object it is possible to increase its value. Investing time into a biodegradable object (a cabbage) changes its value. Te nature of the vegetable means that it wilts and decays, so although its surface has been ornamented, and it has become a surface for design, it cannot be preserved.

It is this idea of time I wish to explore. Drawing on the vegetable with a fine needle means that its own bruising becomes its ornament. As time passes the ornament will change, becoming darker and more contrasting to the natural colour of the vegetable.

This piece is a play on the value of preserving that which society considers beautiful and the reluctance to let beauty pass us by. The ornamental bruised cabbage will wilt in the space of the show and become waste.”