Final

I was very curious what the final would be for this class.  We had worked with so many different things this semester I did not know what it would be.  When I found out we were going to work with food I was both excited and concerned.  I had a bunch of ideas, but was wary of which would work.  The one I settled with was using fruit candy to try and make larger representations of the fruit they were flavored like.  People always seem to be making food that mimics other food, or to look like something else, cakes that look like other food, "dessert nachos", "dessert pizza"...the world of sweets is fun, but not always the most creative.  I thought it would be interesting to go with that idea and make a lemon out of lemon candy, a green apple out of green apple candy, etc....food that looks and tastes like what it is supposed to be, but is still not exactly it.

Unfortunately, the candy was not malleable in the slightest sense of the word, and even when I got it workable it was unbelievably sticky.  Soon I had given up on my idea, and turned to music.  Then it occurred to me that music (popular or otherwise) faces the same tests of time that food does.  Bands and song may be well known in their time, but soon their popularity decays, just like food, and in a much more morbid sense, the people that listen to it.  So I thought of a couple bands that I could still use my fruit idea with and make my point about music...I made a Wild Cherry ("Play That Funky White Boy") and Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense Peppermint").

Oddly enough, my Strawberry Alarm Clock also can relate to time in that it ended up looking like a clock....