Framing the Grapes - Meet in the Middle Installation

When Caroline and I got partnered up for our project, we quickly discovered we lived very close to each other and hadn't realized it before. We met up and found a grapevine in the GLC to be the middle point between our two rooms. We brainstormed ways of creating an installation and were both inspired by the idea of highlighting nature in an everyday context.

We decided to specifically highlight the grapes on this vine as it was something neither of us noticed until we looked closer. There are so many things in our everyday lives that we take for granted and don't notice unless we stop and look. We talked about using picture frames to point the grapes out, but decided to choose a more natural looking material to highlight the natural beauty rather than distract from it. We used basket reeds as a natural looking material, which also connected to a deeper theme of "harvesting" grapes not by plucking them, but by drawing attention to them.

Our installation also calls attention to the issue of food waste. The grapes here are

technically a food we could be eating, but don't, and they just stay there until they rot or fall off. I've been thinking a lot more about food waste as I've been cooking my own meals this school year and thinking about what foods I use and what I don't and end up needing to throw away.