There’s something calming and gratifying about objects sorted and organized – a human neurological quirk that’s made its way into affinity groups and bestseller lists, and is shared by many of us here at Mylio (and, we suspect, by you too). The three creatives below are definitely on board with organizing, with three takes on food still lifes that are both fun and satisfying. What must their dinner plates have looked like growing up?
Links will jump you down the page:
Sam Kaplan: Pyramids Unwrapped
Brittany Wright: Food Gradients
Lernert & Sande
When the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant wanted an arresting image for their special photo documentary project about food, they reached out to artists Lernert & Sande. The duo’s finished effort: nearly 100 perfect 1 x 1 x 1-inch raw, comestible cubes. You can buy prints of the work here. And for those of you who don’t think the image is quite organized enough, take heart: one obsessive netizen has — wait for it — assiduously labeled each of the cubes.
Via boredpada.
Sam Kaplan
New York-based commercial photographer Sam Kaplan shoots plenty of assignments for clients, but his Pyramids Unwrapped project was a personal effort, reflecting his own predeliction for things organized neatly. The architecturally-sound ‘pyramids and pits’ he’s constructed for the images below are made of cookies, cakes, and candies with no adhesives or supports other than gravity and meticulous attention to detail.
“I guess ‘precise’ is a good way to describe it. Maybe even a little OCD.”
Via designboom.
Brittany Wright
Food photographer Brittany Wright is right here in our back yard in Seattle, and arranges food she sources from her garden and the local farmer’s markets in Pantone-like gradients as a way of raising people’s awareness about what real food is like. You can buy prints of her work here.
Via junk culture.