Edward Weston and Jila Nikpay two photographers who master the use of light and shadow in their black and white photographs provide rich undulating blacks and pristine whites to lure the viewer into the folds of a bell pepper or a suggestion of a dream. Both exclaim aesthetic beauty and a rich narrative. What would happen if color was added? Would the mystery of Jila’s psychological, constructed photographs escape–would the pepper and sand dunes in weston’s photograph’s lose their obscurity and femininity? I am going to investigate the use of color in photographing fruits and vegetables; however, the produce will be manipulated and constructed in way that seems to tell a mythical narrative or suggest a dream or unconscious world similar to Jila Nikpay’s work.
The vegetable used is the plant from a bloomed garlic called garlic scape.
