WHAT’S THE STORY?
What’s The Story’ was an open brief that ended the second year. From our self-directed narrative, we could go in any direction we want from digital to print.
I was interested in exploring sculpting for my outcome, and with some research, I was quickly interested in creating a food sculpture, inspired by takeaway culture. I drew inspiration from Dominique Rayou’s Pear sculpture, as well as Erwin Wurm’s ‘fat car’ models.
I wanted to create a story of the romanticisation of takeaways, and how the idea of it always seems better than the pay-off. Therefore, I created a stacked burger that looked shiny and valuable, however it is just a burger.
To do this, I modelled my dish out of tin foil and then covered it in sculpting clay, ready to bake. Once it was baked, I primed it with a conducting paint and then electroplated it, essentially bathing it in a solution which would create a copper coat.
UWE Brief
12 x 10 cm