Dangerous Fruit

plums, police line up, dangerous fruit, Mr. Potato head, photography project
dangerous fruit

In my second year at Glamorgan, now the University of South Wales I did a photography module.  Never having studied photography before I wanted to learn how to take a good snapshot and at the very least be able to photograph my work well.  We had a project called Plums.  This was based on a famous poem by William Carlos Williams and is open to many interpretations.

This Is Just To Say

by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

– See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535#sthash.LYkdVDm6.dpuf

many students took this to mean death or suicide but I had a different view on the matter.  Because the person in the singular tense had committed a crime and the poem talked about fruit I produced a photograph of fruit in a police line up looking guilty with parts from my grandsons Mr. Potato head on them.

My creative practice is based on my personal perception of colours and forms which are linked to my neurodivergence. my creative output has taken the form of an animation for my degree show, a 3d mobile installation, an illustration of a poetry book, taking part in Tom Croft’s Portraits for heroes and an Antimicrobial Art Commission for Cardiff University’s Art lab project. I am a member of Disability Arts Cymru, Solidarity of Hope .Torfaen arts and women’s arts association based in cardiff