Paint by E numbers: A junk food journal
Blogging with bar graphs

Above was my response to a one day film brief. It was an extension of the project, 'Blogging with bar graphs.' By visually documenting the negative elements in the junk food that I eat each day it may help me to eat even less of it. Most contain a lot more energy than my body needs.

I converted the number of kilojoules of energy in each substance per day into relative quantities of actual explosive power. I then created these explosions using proportionate numbers of detonators to represent the hyperactivity reactions that E numbers cause in children. The quantity and type of E numbers in each snack was used as paint to leave a visual trace of the explosion on the canvas.

 

 

 

 

541 kilojoules of Orangeade
08.01.09