Taste

Week 5: We went to the Botanic Gardens to diagram taste and create a cake model based on one of the diagrams. All of our senses were heightened when walking through the gardens which made it challenging to document taste. Listening to the birds, the trees blowing and feeling the textures of the environment surrounding us was a sensual experience as a whole.

Diagram 1 & 2: 

Rough textures of the trees. 

Diagram 3: 

Shapes and forms of the flowers and plant life. 

Some look sharp and spiky while others are soft or rough textures.  

Diagram 4:

Wind blows the air and taste of the environment, we hear

the birds movement and noises above us.

Diagram 5:

The smell of the flowers is blown away by the wind. 

The smell is stronger at particular areas in the gardens and the wind

 blows and merges these smells together depending on where you are standing

(model of cake crumbs is based on this sketch).

Diagram 6:

All senses appear to merge together - all of our senses are heightened 

- sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste (the last model

is based on this idea).

Diagram 7:

Listening to the trees blowing by the wind and the smell of the herb mint

is strong and then fades as the wind carries the smell elsewhere. 

Based on diagram 5.

Based on diagram 6.