Ethos Presentation

The ethos brief was set by my tutor, Dale Russel, and challenged us to create an abstract object that depicted (without words) the idea behind our solo project.

I decided to create an object that reacted in a totally unexpected way when it was interacted with, and chose to make an exploding loaf of bread. I hollowed out a (stale - as little food waste here as possible) loaf that I found and put a bottle filled with bicarb of soda, vinegar, detergent and food colouring inside of it.

The idea was that once this was shaken up I would stab the loaf of bread as if to cut it and it would explode in a shower of pink froth. The night before I had been experimenting in the kitchen and it had worked (went EVERYWHERE) so I had high hopes.

To cut a long story short it pretty much failed miserably, and I ended up having to squeeze the pink foam out of the loaf - although it still actually looked pretty gross and cool at the same time. Below is the aftermath. Considerably less foam covered than I'd hoped...