We also eat with our eyes, so sometimes we spend almost more time decorating the food than cooking. And not only the food, the 'background' is also important, i.e. the placemat that, like eye mascara, emphasizes the dish. But if the photographs from TQ Lee's "Inedible" series are 'edible' from an aesthetic point of view, they are definitely not from the edibility point of view. That doesn't mean they're safe to watch on an empty stomach, but now that you know the secret, you might just be able to keep your drool under control. Unless you're into rubber, plastic or cellulose.
Just like we are used to the cute plastic food decorations in furniture centers, too Australian photographer TQ Lee uses food only as decorative element and something that 'serves' on the wall and not on the table.
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Camouflage inedible behind the edible is really phenomenal and blends perfectly with the series of food photos on Instagram. If you just scroll through the gallery, you won't notice the difference at all, but any stop and appetite will quickly spoil the realization that they are actually flakes Lego, gum cookies, green salad confetti, hamburger buns dishwashing sponges, cable spaghetti, a straw French fries and tampons ice cream. The latter was probably the last nail in the running coffin, but the charm remains. And even though none of us would ever actually eat it, we forget that the food we eat every day is full of artificial substances, which probably won't convince you to reach for one of these anyway, even if they do have them natural ingredients, like Lee's urine. His food is only a reflection of the real thing, but it holds up a mirror for us. Do we even know what we are really eating?
The project was also created as a caricature of objectification and food fetishization, because it is today photography food before eating almost as often as praying in Catholic circles before the first bite.
More information: tqlee.com
