I am What I eat

I am What I eat:

Together with our artist in residence Veronika, we looked at the history of Still Life paintings and discovered the amazing work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He was an Italian Renaissance painter who lived in the 16th century. He painted portraits but when you look closely, you can see that all the faces are composed of fruits or vegetables. Some of his paintings you can turn upside down. They look like a fruit basket one way up and like a face the other way up. Isn't that cool? 

                 

With our teachers, we had learned how bees pollinate lots of the fruits and vegetables we eat. Did you know that without pollinators like bees, we would not have any apples, lemons, bananas, melons, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, almonds, cashew, coconut, avocado, beans, vanilla, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, turnips, beetroot, pumpkin, tea, coffee or most importantly CHOCOLATE?

Grace

Without bees to pollinate food crops, we would lose vital minerals and vitamins in our diet. This gave us lots of food for thought, and inspired us to make our own self-portraits of favourite foods we eat and that are important to us. We cut out images from shopping catalogues to make collages. Here are some of our portraits: 

Alex

             

Mark

             

                  Gabriel

Here are some of our artists at work: 

     

... and a Self Portrait by Orlaith: