In my seminar final paper, I did research of the visual culture of the food truck, including color choices, enlarge catalog design, the location where it is located, the customers and last but not least, how does culture influence our visual preferences.
After many times of debate between myself, I finally decide what I wanted to do for the studio art piece. I always enjoy having my creations have some sort of engagement with the audience, especially something that is tactile. So I make a loop video of the redesign of the food truck aesthetic, but instead I add my own background context and voice over of describing texture to make people feel the sense of weirdness. On the table, I displayed some utensils, fruit and egg. I mix up the positions of these things to become something that usually won’t go well together. For example, putting egg beside the soy souse, put salt beside the sweet orange. Something that I from the critique that can push my project more forward is too create a more absurd scenario for my props. Like putting fur on the chopsticks, baking the peel of the orange to it actually became crispy.
manifesto:
I eat something that keeps my stomach confused for the whole day.
I eat something that stings my tongue like a hot soup, remind me that i have to be patient.
I eat something that looks healthy because of the packaging but it’s actually not.
I eat something that can be simple as tomato scramble eggs but my mouth would always water for it.
I eat something that is small enough to keep in my pockets so I can share with different people i meet.
I eat something that has its own color palette, bragging to me that it has its own unique stories.
I eat something that is already section up, so I am able to easily decide how much I want to digest.
Can sushi ever be fluffy?
Can dumplings ever transform into a squishy toy?
Can the crispy bok choy ever be one of the big evil guy in the video games?
Can the crunchy lotus root become of the origin of the old telephone design?
no worries for now, they are already in a stomach, waiting for the answers to come.
