MODIFIED FRUIT

  • Apple-Horn - Apple with antlers (45x50x48cm)
  • Banana/Caterpillar with 10 chicken feet made of bronze on each side (135x50x50cm)
  • Egg on pig's feet, made from resin. (55x40x40cm)
  • Pepper "Watching You" - solid wood, with eyes and a coral top (70x45x50cm)
  • Walnut "bug" with horns (50x45x40cm)
  • Garlic with a goat's coat (75x70x70)
  • Pear with insects (100x55x45cm)
  • Pineapple with chicken feathers (150x70x70)
  • Wild Peach - peach with boar's teeth and coral (70x56x40cm)
  • Asparagus sculpted with fishheads (180x25x25)
  • Pumpkin with vine covert with snails (65x90x65)
  • Strawberry "Shells forever" - strawberry with shells and a tail (57x40x33cm)

IModify

 

Dare to eat different

 My inspiration for the creation of these sculptures was based on two factors:

 

1 When ‘genetic modification’ became an issue, I was inspired.

I had no idea that the industry behind the agricultural sector was so busy genetically modifying seeds in order to produce better crops.

I hadn’t really given it any thought.

 

Unfortunately, only the scandals make the news.

My initial reaction was to believe every alarmist article that was published.

Now that I am better informed, I see the many different sides of the story.

I am fascinated by its dimension, complexity, potential, and usefulness; by its impact on our health, the shortage of food, global production, etc.

The subject has been on my mind to such an extent that I was stimulated to express myself as an artist.

 

2 The wide range of cookery programmes on television. "I'd see them when flipping through channels but they never held my interest... until I started to wonder why juggling with food fascinates people so much."

I saw a parallel between creating, combining and trying out, and it all came to together.

 

 I’m not a great cook myself, but as a sculptor I felt like one when I was working on these objects, discovering the various ways in which different worlds can be combined: just like a cook plays with the individual ingredients in his dishes.

I’m still bubbling inside, there are still so many fun combinations to discover: I’m not done yet, not by a long shot!

 

It’s endless.

It’s creative.

It’s fascinating.

 

With my work, I hope to stimulate curiosity, creativity and inventiveness, in a playful and humoristic manner.

 

I want to confront people with something unreal, and prompt them to start thinking.

What does this subject do with me?

What do I want to do about it?

What fun it would be for me to start experimenting!

 

IModify is a series of conceptual pieces of art.

Over the past three years, I have created 17 powerful objects that combine plants and animals in an amazing way. By re-using natural items such as wood, skin, fur, coral, shells, insects, antlers, etc., they now form a beautiful, sustainable collection of “modified vegetables and fruit”.