food x distance x waste

As a part of the beginning explorations for my MFA thesis, I conducted a small data collection of food. I photographed the purchases and combined their images in an attempt to reveal the relationship between their aesthetics, costs, and our conceptions of them. How can we reclaim the expected shape of a tomato? What kind of information can write over people’s perceptions of food aesthetics? What are the consequences of these actions? How much perfectly edible food gets wasted because of aesthetic imperfections?

Read more about these photographic studies and the MFA thesis here.

Urban Street Trash
estimation of food waste accumulation for this household over the period of one year

Tomayto, Tomahto
previously pictured tomatoes overlaid

Red, Gold & Green
previously pictured peppers overlaid

Tomatoes
sorted by decreasing distance

Peppers
sorted by decreasing price

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