Monday, November 1, 2010

Edible Mutations


From Uli Westphal's photography website:

The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables, displaying a dazzling variety of forms, colours and textures, that only reveal themselves when lawfully enforced standards cease to exist. The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste). The Mutato-Project serves to document, preserve and promote these last remainders of agricultural diversity.

4 comments:

undergroundbastard said...

I reopened this post while eating a completely tasteless, but perfectly round, honeydew melon from Whole Foods this morning.

Heidi Born said...

Did the melon taste better?

undergroundbastard said...

Better than cardboard, lines at the DMV and ruptured oil pipelines. I'll give it that.

Unknown said...

MUTATOES!!!!