University of Toronto student and artist Eden Biggin plays with her food
Toronto based student and artist Eden Biggin likes to be creative with food.In her first piece "Alphagetti" the artist uses store-bought alphagetti. Biggin believes the piece was more of a personal expressiveness where she was able to play with colours.
"Food is cheap but it can mimic so many textures," she said. In her second piece, titled "Yellow Circle," Biggin uses yellow face paint, oatmeal, shaving cream, corn meal, yellow food colouring, a sponge and hair gel. For Biggin, there is really no particular inspiration that is behind all her pieces, but rather the idea of a "sudden and spontaneous" spirit. She likes to capture the bizarre, the absurd and using food as been able to add to that affect.In relation to makerculture, Biggin believes that all artists are makers and it doesn't matter which material they use. "In art you are a maker, whether you use food or metal," she said.
"Food is cheap but it can mimic so many textures," she said. In her second piece, titled "Yellow Circle," Biggin uses yellow face paint, oatmeal, shaving cream, corn meal, yellow food colouring, a sponge and hair gel. For Biggin, there is really no particular inspiration that is behind all her pieces, but rather the idea of a "sudden and spontaneous" spirit. She likes to capture the bizarre, the absurd and using food as been able to add to that affect.In relation to makerculture, Biggin believes that all artists are makers and it doesn't matter which material they use. "In art you are a maker, whether you use food or metal," she said.
Biggin is the model of both of these pieces and reflects her work as self-portraits.
---Arti Patel
Photos courtesy of Eden Biggin
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