Art of Food Styling: Metamorphosis II

Students are now in pursuit of a new experience. Have you ever looked at an apple like this? Or have you ever sliced an apple like this? Here, we are trying to see the shapes hidden inside the apple. We could use another food, but apple is a perfect choice for analysis due to its form. 

Let's see what the following photographs will show us. Students of the Gastroartology® course at Yeditepe University's Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts are now on a different visual journey with an apple!

Students are asked at the Gastroartology® course at the Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Yeditepe University What we can do with an identical slice taken from two different apples? Of course, apart from eating it. 

Creating something with only one slice may be impossible but as the number of slices increase, we can create new arrangements, just like in this photograph.

One concept that is emphasized a lot in the Gastroartology® courses is realizing. What do you see in this visual? Apples, or large, white gaps? While apples are lined up in an orderly fashion, suddenly we see a line drawn. Why?

Solely to create a feeling of surprise. How important is this feeling for you? Let's seek the answer in the folloving visuals.

It is important to be open for surprises, or we cannot discover our creativity. Is the surprise created by the apple or by the person making the arrangement in this visual? 

The answer to this question is provided by Gastroartology® students with their studies. What about you?

Let's take a closer look to the surprise in the previous visual. Now we can see it a bit more clearly. The creator of the surprise is both the apple and the creator of this arrangement. Students of Gastroartology® class create a completely different visual by intervening in the unique form and texture of an apple and create a completely different visual.

Also, against the naturally rounded form of an apple, it turns into a composition that includes various forms and details, using simple arrangements.

Now let us follow the traces of the forms created by Gastroartology® students in the previous visual. These traces now enable us to create new compositions with the same forms. Simple, and effective compositions. 

Just like using fewer words to tell about more. Please join us trying to find new shapes in these compositions, and see how many can you find.