Art 13 - Natural vs. Artificial
Electronic Fruit Baskets
In my class’ final project, we had to depict the concept: Natural vs. Artificial. Using plastic fruits I found at Savers, I represented Nature. I put a spin on it by making ‘industrialized looking fruits’ to represent the idea of artificiality.
My original inspiration was simply to make a Banana phone. But my idea developed over time into a fruit basket(s) of apple speakers, lighted grapes, and an orange with techy components.
My piece is interactive; you can lift a tab to hear the Banana phone sing a short clip of the famous Banana Phone song by Raffi. If you plug an mp3 player into the cord extended from the apple speakers, the mini apple speakers will play you music :)
The grapes were lighted by Christmas lights. The orange has no true function like the rest of the fruits, but a switch exists on the back of it and there are several socket attachments I cut and placed within it. Lastly, a green Ethernet cord wraps around my fruit baskets to represent a vine entwining power and electricity through the fruit baskets.
Special thanks to:
-Shannon Wright
-TAs Melody, Steve
-Stephanie and her family
-Corry and his ID tools
-Tony for his speakers
-Brittani for inspiring the Hallmark recording card idea
