Revisiting Bread Heads

For my "final piece", I wanted to create something more in depth. It captures creation, destruction, and reconstruction, taking some inspiration from past work and some of the artists I didn't quite get round to exploring. Revisiting Bread Heads is the creation section.

As the title suggests, I wanted to return to the Bread Bodies work, except this time including my family. I thought it'd be a great opportunity to finally incorporate others into my art (which I'd wanted to do since watching the provided videos) since it was something I'd personally enjoyed making. Making bread as a family is also pretty common, which felt like an added bonus compared to the original idea I hadn't got round to doing. I managed to convince my dad and my brother, Luke, to help me out. 

Admittedly, Dad did quite a lot of the work - since I "made too much of a mess" the last time, he prepped the dough for us. We split it into three and mixed extras into two of those parts - I added sprinkled into my third, we left Luke's plain, and added raisins to the last bit. We each sculpted our heads, and, as you can see in the video, I had a much harder time than them. My attempt at making a fox's head (after all, I did only tell them "make a bread head", no other details!) came out really poor as the sprinkles had melted, leaving a sticky mess for a dough. After baking, we took them out, left them to cool, and then I snapped the pictured of each of us holding them.

I really like the results of having done this as it shows the different approaches each of us took from prompt - mine was a (poorly executed) animal, Luke's was a little abstract, and dad's was pretty much what you'd expect. Although I may be a little disappointed with mine, I do think it's quite funny that the "artist" in the family had the worst results! If these were to be for a real exhibit, I'd like to display them together, preferably near the destruction video. I think that the final message would be really effective, but you'll have to read the other two posts to understand why.

To see how they were made, please watch the video below!