70s food research:

The 70s are known for being outrageous in every way including their food.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2016/nov/12/70s-dinner-party-food-in-pictures

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These dishes are a sight to behold. The effort put into the presentation is incredible. The meal becomes a whole experience.

I’m drawn to using food inspired by the 70s because thats the era of psychedelics and new age thinking which is where some of my other themes for my intervention come from so it would tie together with the rest of the space.

I love the idea of using jelly because you can get such great colours that would tie nicely to the candy coloured acrylic sheets in my intervention. Jelly also exudes weird and wonderful. The way it moves, looks, feels is all very enticing and out of the ordinary.

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I liked the sherbet element that Heston used in his 70s themed dish and the way it transferred on to peoples hands and gets everything sticky. I want to find a way to create a similar situation where peoples hands get sticky so you can see how many places they touch and to draw attention to our hands like how covid did in 2020. I want to re create that dynamic of being nervous and overly aware of using your hands.

My first idea was to create a large jelly cake and somehow dice it up whilst still holding itself together. Each cube of jelly would have a toothpick coming out of it so the look of the jelly cake would be that of a hedgehog. I would then dust the jelly in sherbet so that when you picked up the jelly cube the sherbet would fall onto your hand making it sticky and tempting you to lick your hand.

I realised that form probably wouldn’t actually hold together nicely.

My next idea was to not cut it up and make people just pinch a piece off but didn’t think that would be very enticing and people would probably not engage with it because its too messy.

I then thought of doing little individual jellies that you pop straight in your mouth like little lollies covered in sherbet. its inviting, somewhat hygienic, gets people using their hands and gets them sticky.

Another idea, if i was to take it further, was to copy the 70s and put food that shouldn’t be in jelly into the jelly. Banana bread was a common theme of lockdown so if I go down this route I would add bits of banana bread into the bite sized jellies and dust them with sherbet.

Trials of food intervention? how it is displayed?