'Glorified' - Fruitdisplay

1mm frosted polypropylene sheets, purple ribbons.

The project asked for a 'container/display item for fruit'. Which in my opinion is really a way of saying 'glorified fruit-bowl', hense the name. It can also be taken on the positive note that the female shape IS an item worthy of worship and glory.

I went with the corset design because it is the very symbol of restriction, keeping something inside it. But there's also a beauty to it, it is an artefact in itself. The idea with the butterflies was that they mimic the shape of a woman when laced up but at the same time they are something free that can never be restricted.

What I really wanted to do was get stencils of butterflies and cut them out of the plastic, so that the colour added to the piece would be from the fruit itself but due to illness (3 week project, I started one week late) and the fact that this is not the time of year for butterfly-stencils (the craft shop is all raindeer, holly and Santa-Clauses now...) I had to settle for these silly painted things (they're stick-ons...*wince*). I am trying to look at this as 'only' a prototype and plan to make my own stencils so I can make some of these for female relations as Christmas presents.