In all my series, my assemblages and portraits connect the viewer to the ecological cycles of the natural world, including their own aging and mortality. Cut Food, food cut in half, food, conceptual food, ice cream, coffee, donuts, sundae, soup, soup cans, pickled eggs, mashed potatoes, gravy, fried chicken, hot dog.
I compose each specimen in a way that allows it to take on its own human-like persona. Beth Galton is the author of Say Cheese (3.67 avg rating, 3 ratings, 1 review, published 1993), The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen (3.90 avg rating, 433 rati. In these instances, I wait until their shape seems ripe for the camera and, I document them individually. I find these natural objects always change with time, sometimes into abstract forms. For other series, I store my specimens and wait patiently, observing them as they change. For some series, I arrange plant-life into living collages for the camera, often juxtaposing them with an assortment of symbols of scientific imperialism, as a means of exploring the ideas that shape our understanding of the natural world. Here I work with the organic material I have collected in a variety of ways. Join Facebook to connect with Beth Galton and others you may know.
I begin my process by carefully selecting visually interesting plants at farmer’s markets and flower markets and bringing them back to my studio. View the profiles of people named Beth Galton. My personal practice brings these elements of my history together, in an effort to reimagine the classic 19th-century botanical drawing, as means of investigating the nature of time, through organic forms.
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I am a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural sciences and 30 years of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial world. A visual collaboration between the photographer Beth Galton & food stylist Charlotte Omnes, and its called Cut Food and it features a look at food in a.
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