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This was the last phase of drying the fruit slices. I didn’t see much change happening at this phase, the fruit were pretty dry and hard to the touch though the flesh was still sticky, and still had a fruity scent to it just not as prominent, they had also become see-through.
Overall this process was very time consuming and most of it was waiting to see any changes happening, however I did enjoy the results.

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Over the few weeks of waiting to see change, this is where it started to become more obvious. The fruit was no longer moist, it had become sticky like sugar but it still had a fruity scent of a lemon to it.

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At the start of the transformation, the fruit slices had a pretty strong scent to them and were really moist to the touch, they were also flexible and left a sticky residue on my fingers.
At this point it had only been about 2-3 days of drying.

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Experimenting with drying out fruit slices and seeing how they transform over time.

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Experimenting with drying out fruit slices and seeing how they transform over time.

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Final update: This is the final product of the clementine sitting out for another 3 or so weeks. Not much change occurred after this.
The skin was somewhat hard and leathery to the touch, but the inside was squishy. However I did not dare to investigate the scent.

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An update: The clementine has been sitting out for another 2 weeks

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Over the span of a month and a half, I left a small clementine on my windowsill to decompose so I could photograph any changes occurring. At this point it had been approximately a week or two of sitting.

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Here I attempted at drawing a circle with the torch while using a yellow jelly filter. The reflection of the filter makes it look like fire, as if I was holding a sparkler. This method was much easier and fun to do, I didn’t have to be as careful about if I was staying still or not.

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In this photo it’s easier to see the slight reflection of the jelly filter I had used to cover the torch (near the lower and mid area of the photo), I think it adds a nice touch of texture to the photograph.

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I also attempted at making small dots with the torch and slow exposure, however that proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated. I had to be fast but also very still to capture the circular shape I wanted of the torch light, but trying to be quick made my hands shake thus creating the blurry effect.

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This was a less successful attempt on light painting, I covered a torch with a purple jelly filter but I assume the purple light didn’t pick up well on my camera or the torch just wasn't strong enough through the purple filter.

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For today’s class, we were experimenting with slow exposure and lights + jelly filters. Personally this didn’t exactly correlate with my ideas and my work so far but nevertheless it was fun to do.

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After collecting ideas from multiple sources, we had to work on creating something 3D out of various materials, I felt very inspired by the koi fish embroidery so I picked to work with wire since it seemed simple enough but also matched my research on Tomohiro Inaba, a Japanese artist who works with iron since it reacts with oxygen immediately when exposed to it, thus starting the decay of the metal over long periods of time making it rust. While I wasn’t working directly with iron, (I’m not exactly sure what metal it was, it was covered in paper) I felt like it was pretty close.

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After passing the graffiti, I stumbled upon a scrapyard for mostly cars which get crushed, reaching the end of their life. I found the crushed, cube shaped cars being stacked upon each other quite interesting, while being practically useless in this form, especially with all the rust, yet they’ve found their place being used as display for the scrapyard.

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I found these framed records in the same place, the Red Brick Market, that someone had cut into and out of to make these intriguing pieces. I don’t know where these records came from or if they were functional beforehand.

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While not exactly a circle, I thought it was still pretty fitting with the previous piece of the two koi fish.

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In a place called the Red Brick Market, I found this embroidery of two koi fish, it felt like this piece was quite literally a circle but also metaphorically, the two fish swimming in a circle, representing something whole and complete, that one cannot exist without the other (such as ying and yang).

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The first step to get ideas was to look at our surroundings. I found a place where in every direction you looked, you’d see colourful graffiti, some older than others, peeling and flaking which is exactly what I was looking for. My base idea was to look at decay and circle of life, how things start and how they end, and graffiti was the best starting point for me as it was easy to find and get interesting photographs from.

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As the final object of the project, I took apart and reconstructed my two objects and made something entirely new. There is no specific reason as to why I chose to make a flower, I thought it would be the best thing I can make with the limited materials I had at the time.

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After destroying my book and the trinket bag as best as I could, I photographed them from many angles. I found the shape that the pages took very interesting, it looked like ocean waves of words.

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I had the opportunity to go outside and photograph my objects, however it was raining and I only managed to get this one photo, I didn’t want to run the risk of ruining my book just yet.

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Using the space within the building, I walked around and placed my objects in various areas and photographed them. I’m not used to this type of photography so it was very much out of my comfort zone.

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I photographed the pages burning while they were in the bucket of water, I did this just because I liked the contrast of fire and water. However this was very difficult as I had to be incredibly fast to capture the moment before the flame was extinguished.

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I took a couple burnt pages and stuck them on top of each other, there was no particular reason for this other than that I wanted to photograph something that rose up from the paper, since I thought that the normal, flat burnt pages weren’t interesting enough for my taste.

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I photographed the once wet pages again but this time when they were completely dry, they had become warped and a little crinkled.

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I experimented with fire and burnt some of the book pages while I was in the process of taking it apart, I had a bucket nearby that I proceeded to dump the pages into as they were burning just for safety reasons. I photographed the pages while they were wet.

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Unlike the non-edited neon light photos, these are much brighter and eye catching, I wanted to experiment with editing and see if I could turn the previous softer lights into something more harsh.

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Using a couple of jelly films [ blue & purple ] I took photos of the two objects interacting, I was going for a soft, dreamy like atmosphere.

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Using an iPad with a neon background, I took a few photos of my two objects to create a new fantasy like atmosphere, turning two boring items into something more eye catching.