Gastroartology®: Arrangement and Interpretation of Nature
Learn more about the art of food with the Gastroartology® course at Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Yeditepe University.
A leaf of a black cabbage
A leaf of a black cabbage includes a great variety of visual forms in itself. As it is presented in the picture, when we comb out parts apart from the nervures for half of the leaf after cutting it through the central nervure and keep one half of it as it, we encounter a natural design that should never be underestimated! Still, let's touch it a bit further and see how many visual opportunities that leaf can provide.
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Trial/ArrangementOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
Trial and arrangement
Students are provided with a simple leaf of black cabbage in the Gastroartology® course and asked to create six different compositions, both by preserving the natural form and enabling us to have new and different forms like the one in the visual. Can you imagine creating new forms from a simple one like that in this visual?
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Still LifeOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
Still Life
The black cabbage leaf is waiting for the students of Gastroartology® with all its mysteries. Just like in this picture, it holds its mysteries within its darkness. Now, let's seperate these leaves and try to find new forms and compositions.
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Trial/DeconstructionOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
Trial and deconstruction
Forms that have no meaning when mixed with each other make a visual impact in an order. We can call it a composition. In forms of black cabbage leavves, when they are laid as such in this picture, we encounter with this composition.
Installations are the most important phase of creativity. We create a new structure by intervening in the structure of the black cabbage. Simple, but not easy to be simplified.
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Trial/DeconstructionOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
Simplifying things to convey a message is a difficult job. Just like simple writing or speeches. This composition provides us with a visual form of it. We believe that you would make a wish if you saw a leaf like this in the nature, what do you think? Isn't it surprising?
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Trial/DeconstructionOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
A square-shaped face in a natural leaf. A simple composition based on the contrasts. Yet, it is surprising. Because a black cabbage is associated with something that is against its natural structure.
We can enrich our surprise in the previous visual a little further. Students surprise their audiences by trying unexpected forms. And these geometric forms are not laid out randomly. They look like they are located on the body of the leaf, like the face of the black cabbage.
Gastroartology®: Arrangements Trial/OppositionOriginal Source: Faculty of Fine Arts, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department
Trial and opposition
Using contrasts in artistic production is another important theory in expressing creativity. These contrasts might be about the natural shape of an object, like the previous visual, or about discovering other contrasts we might discover within the object.
What lies at the foundation of all these studies is discovery, or trying in essence. Just like experimental searches for new forms in this visual.
The course is part of the Gastroartology® course at Yeditepe University's Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts.
Instructor: Prof. Gulveli Kaya
Creator: Prof. Dr. Sibel OzilgenEditor: Ozan Aydın
