Buy Local. Eat What You Cook.

 

The original image accompanies an article in Bon Appétit magazine that describes Italian food, and Americans’ desire to import specialty items from Italy. The image shows a series of food items that are “Italian,” but that has been made in America. The image, along with the article, has the message, “Buy American. Eat Italian.” I felt struck by the lack of fresh produce, even though the message is hoping that people eat and buy food closer to home. My remix depicts fresh produce, and my hope is that it reminds viewers that local food is fresher, can be healthier, but also helps support community agriculture, and take the carbon footprint out of long-distance food travel. With ingredients you can see, smell, and feel good about buying, you can cook and enjoy eating whatever you choose!

Liv Berger

Original Image:

Photograph by Christopher Baker

bon appétit

May 2011

The Italy Issue

pg. 124-125

Imagine Better

Imagine Better

Our lives, and especially our children’s, are filled with so much consumerism. The original image reminded me of the innocence and simplicity of nature and how it is being lost among children. I chose to surround this little girl’s dreams with images of “stuff.” Loud, chaotic, and distracting. The expansion of the “stuff” in contrast of the contained lines of nature in the original image remind me of how out of control our individual environments can become, and how limited our access to nature becomes because of it. I also thought the quote fit beautifully with both images.

Breanne Smoley

Real Simple Magazine. August, 2016. Pg. 2. Photograph by: Stefano Azario.

Art Remix - Morton

Photo by Sarah B Gilliam

Local Table: Summer 2016 

I chose my original image from an article in Local Table, a small magazine highlighting food and farms in middle Tennessee. I randomly picked this free magazine up while on vacation because I was attracted to the illustration on the cover. My original photo was part of an article titled “Growing as She Goes” that was about a local CSA farmer, Tana Comer, and her experience building her farm and establishing her customer base. The photo shows Tana’s earthed hands holding strawberries. The image made me think of buying local food and supporting local farmers and businesses. How much food do we eat without knowing where it comes from? How often do we make choices that give back to and support our communities?  I wanted the reader to think about this with my remixed image.

To remix my image I searched for ads of packaged and processed foods. I layered the background of the image with these new pictures. I then cut out the hands handing the strawberries and pasted it on top. I added the words “Put Local on Your Plate” across the bottom of the image. The hands look like they are reaching out offering the strawberries to the viewer over the other options. 

Etullop: A opposition to pollution

The original image I chose is of a boy in a large, polluted technological wasteland in Guiyu, China. The boy in the image is sorting through the junk, looking for any useful reusable materials that could be sold.  Having studied this site in my undergraduate studies, it stuck with me years later. 

For my remix, I wanted to give the boy an environment that he deserve as a young child; an environment without wiring, metal and pollution. To do this, I cut around the boy, leaving him as the foreground of the piece.  I replaced the background with a collage of nature.  I included grass, flowers, trees, water, stone and mountains to surround him with a highly contrasting environment.  

When comparing the two images, I wanted there to be a completely different feel.  The first is a stark and depressing image, while the second is a calming and beautiful.  

The name of the remixed piece, "Etullop," is pollute spelled backwards. The new image is the opposite or backwards vision of the original.  The title also has a similar look and sound to the word eutopia which I feel resonates nicely with the message of the work.  

Original image: http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/campaigns/toxics/problems/e-waste/guiyu/ 

Julia Phillips 

Serenity in Nature

           

 Original

Remixed

Life is about choices and making decisions. There are articles that show how humans share DNA with trees and plants of about 60% of our DNA. As long as trees are alive, it provides life to everyone and everything on the planet. I chose the picture above because of how the tree in the middle is subtle and serene; on the right side is a cemetery. It grabbed my attention because there was some type of unspoken connection between the two. In the remixed picture, the main element was the tree that brings both the negative and positive byproducts in which we can benefit from nature.

Abeer Moqeem

Sources:

Architectural Digest, May 2016: P 126

"National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) - Homepage." National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) - Homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2016.

The Love of the Young

Nicole Donegan

The image that I picked for this project is very striking on its own. It is from National Geographic and is in an article about how Wolong Reserve in China is trying to prepare Pandas to survive in the wild. The image is of an adult wearing a panda suit, to fool the cub into thinking it is being held by a panda. By doing this the cub will not rely on humans for care and hopefully be able to survive on its own. The image that I created is of multiple pictures of a parent and child including animals. In contrast to the image chosen, it is to represent love and the parental protection and care. Also by using these images my hope was to make my original image less terrifying. 

Vitale, A.. (Photographer). (2016 August). Pandas gone wild. Washington DC. National Geographic.

A New Path

In the original image, two hunters wait for the opportunity to shoot waterfowl, scattered bullet casings littering the path behind them. Brush on the pathway is crushed. The sky is gray, and aside from the occasional pop of greenery -- nature seeking to come through human destruction -- the bullet casings are the main source of color in the photo.

In my remix, the greenery has overcome human influence and pollution. It is once again bright and thriving. Animals have returned to the area, with the emerging doe, and human use is limited and respectful -- depicted by the woman quietly reading while leaning against a rock. The pathway in the remix is recreated with colorful, blooming flowers, leading the way to a new cooperation with our environment.

Brandenburg, J. (1984, November). American Waterfowl: Trials and Triumphs. National Geographic, 166(5), 592.

Kate Szumita, A New Path. 2016.

Safety Never Felt So Good

Original Photograph:

Kemple, T. (2016). Tim Kemple takes belly flopping to the extreme in Laguna de Los Tres in El Chalten [Photograph]. American Alpine Club: Guidebook to Membership (p. 13). 

Remix: Safety Never Felt So Good by Laura Kathrein, 2016

As humans, we have created or are in the process of creating anything to provide more comfort and separation from the natural world. In addition, our western consumer culture tells us we need to accumulate more to live civilized lives. The original image captures a whimsical interaction with nature. The carefree man jumping into uncharted waters reminds the viewer the fun of going back to the basics and reconnecting with the environment. I’ve remixed the image to show the junk we acquire that furthers that separation between humans and the natural world as well as giving us a false sense of security.

A Walk in the Woods

                                         

Jenny Mitchell

     The original image (from All Animals magazine, July/August 2016) depicts a mother bear crossing a road with her three small cubs. In the background, pickup trucks are waiting for them to cross. The caption explains that some months later, one of the cubs was hit by a car, and another was not seen again. Humans are encroaching on the bears’ natural habitat—to the detriment of the animals. My remix is designed to draw attention to the problem by exchanging the roles of the humans and the bears. Perhaps if we put ourselves in their place, as mothers with our children, facing a real threat, we can feel the bears' plight more deeply.

Remix Jaclyn Roberts

Real Simple Magazine 2016 p.73

The transformation in my remix is from a beach/ocean catering to people to a beach/ocean catering to its rightful inhabitants, birds and fish.  I covered the bridge, and made it into a waterway for the fish to take back what is theirs. I also covered the boats, that overfish species, and replaced them with an abundance of fish. The fabric used to make the waterway is similar to the fabric that sails are made of.

Escaping the Mess and Entering Bliss

My original image stood out to me because it depicts a natural challenge and fear of mine.  It's something I may never do. Although some look at this as fun and a perfect sport, or even a way to relax and let loose, I look at it as hard work and the impossible.  Natures natural beauty... rocks and boulders and the pure geology fascinates me, but the sport of climbing it scares me. For my remix, I thought about what it would take for me to face my fear and tackle this boulder.  I began to think about our earth and some things I’d like to escape from.  So what would it take to get me to climb it? Escaping the mess and entering bliss….. today’s trash and pollution is creating a world of a mess.  Sadness, darkness, dirt and filth.  I would climb the rock to escape it. I’d imagine entering a world of animals ~ free to be.  A world of trees ~ fresh air to breathe.  The blue sky ~ the limit to reach…. That’s what it would take to climb the rock.

Original image: 

 Title - Rock Goddess

Magazine - All Animals

September/October 2015

Article by Nancy Lawson

Photo by Kevin Fowler

page 26

by Elsa Roderick