Carl Warner’s Foodscapes

• Frank
  January 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am

  Great pictures! Thanks for the link.

• alientango
  January 5th, 2008 at 9:32 am

  nice-looking but totally outrageous if you consider how much hunger there is in the world! what i would like to know is, is that real food? what does he do with it after he has shot his photos?

• Pudifoot
  January 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am

  alientango: oh, give it a rest. this guy making a painting with some bananas isn’t causing some kid in Ethiopia to go hungry!

• alientango
  January 5th, 2008 at 11:01 am

  “Dear ….,

  Thank you for your concern about the food used in the images.

  Unfortunately there is always some waste, but the majority of it is divided up amongst the team of people who work on these images, and so as well as providing employment for them, I also help to feed their families.

  Kind regards,

  Carl”

• alientango
  January 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am

  Pudifoot:
  it’s easy to say that when one lives in a wealthy country where food is so easily available so much so that the world’s most politically influential country — and other more or less developed countries — have an obesity problem and so much so that foodscapes may be made out of it, for no reason other than Art. whereas, on another side of the planet, people can’t even begin to think of art for want of food.

  don’t get me wrong, i love art, i make a living out of it. i just think that it’s symptomatic of an extremely imbalanced distribution of wealth in the world and i think that as a good citizen of the world in which we live, we have a right to be concerned.

  all i would like to do is raise some questions, uncomfortable as they may seem to us who are lucky enough to have so much food and internet access. the other thing i would like is for people to put this whole thing in context, see the bigger picture and not just appreciate art for art’s sake. certainly, it is beautiful, but art exists because it makes a statement of something. or at least, that is the case for most art in most of history.

  in the light of this, i would rather congratulate Carl on his art which allows this controversial subject to be raised; it would then have served a purpose that extends beyond simple “art” or simple “food and world hunger”.

  and the next step would be: what can be done about it? or does one not really care? not even enough to raise questions?

  the answers to these, i leave to each his own.

  thank you for listening.

• roger
  January 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

  I agree with Pudifoot. Alientango, you remind me of Debbie Downer.

• PJ
  January 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  This has to be the first artist that doesn’t smoke pot. How do we know? The food is still there.

• Marília
  January 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  Very Good!

• L.C.
  January 5th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

  alientango…just wanted to make sure youre still alive…your heart is bleeding so….get off your diatribe, we’re so sorry that some people came over here and decided to work their asses off so they could make a living…and now theres people like me, who work their asses off and can just barely afford to keep their heads above the water because theyre already paying for the other half of the country, who refuses to work, to be fed with food stamps…yeah life aint fair, no matter where you live. take a big boy pill and deal with it.

• Klingon
  January 5th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  Yeah OK the worst site ever.

  Why do these guys think it’s cool to not have thumbnails to let us look at everthing at a glance and then pick which ones we want see in more detail?

  I hate these kinds of sites.

• Alex
  January 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am

  I’ve always thought that most of the world’s food/hunger problem is not the production of food (like government having to pay farmers not to grow crop to prop up prices), but the distribution of it. Or more accurately, the lack of distribution of it.

• mandy
  January 15th, 2008 at 3:47 am

  hi
  what a load of moaners i love these picture and wouldn’t mind some prints, they are brilliant

• Tiago Celestino
  January 16th, 2008 at 7:20 am

  But very crazy. The photos of Carl are simply show of ball

• Helle
  January 31st, 2008 at 6:57 am

  I love them! How may i acquire some prints?
  Please email me: garnet_herself@hotmail.com

• JapanLove
  February 1st, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  Yes I would love to have a few of the prints. I saw a few others including a broccoli valley and a mounain with a sugar waterfall that I am very interested in! Please let me know if this is possible!

• mr batty
  February 12th, 2008 at 5:41 am

  wonderful pictures. u bloody stoner

• Shayne
  February 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  I think that these are great it is like taking gingerbread houses to a while new level and Baaaa humbug to the people that have to make everything an issue. There is a time and place to that.
  Keep up the great work and I will keep checking in for new ideas for future gingerbread house creations.

• Emanuele Viscuso
  February 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am

  I simply love these pictures. They are an expression of art and art is art. Arthur Schopenahuer said “Aim of all the arts is the representation of ideas”. And what a beautiful idea these pictures of Carl Warner! For sure they do not represent any waste or cause any hungry person starving. We could say that only if this was dane in a very poor place in spite of the powerty around. But, made here, instead they are a great representation of freedom in expressing our ideas, elegance, culture, fantasy. This world needs more of such things. Democracy is based on them. Thanks, Carl, for giving us such an opportunity. Bravo!
  Emanuele Viscuso
  http://www.viscuso.com

• pam
  February 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  Hey Carl,
  For those who are trying to bug you about the waste of vegetables when making your lovely photo project of art, I say they need to get off their bottoms at the computer and try growing a few vegetables themselves and stop always looking for the free handouts or for someone else to do that type of work…Why don’t they grow some food for the needy…It’s like the folks who complain if you buy a real Christmas tree off a lot because it’s killing a tree…Idiots, if the tree farm didn’t have people buying the trees, they wouldn’t be in the business of planting them…Then some land developer would come in and fill up the land with his concrete and kill everything off.
  If those art hating negative bumblers would get out and plant a few things worth growing, they’d get a better life and they wouldn’t be complaining so much….I am a gardener and I appreciate your art too, as I am into photography…My butt hurts too much to sit at the computer this long….see ya

• pam
  February 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  Hi again,
  Can’t help myself….See the beauty in this art…It truly represents color, line, shape and texture….Something non free countries can really express because they are too busy making life miserable for each other.
  To be honest, if I would have had posters like these hanging in my kitchen when the children were young, I think they would have enjoyed eating their vegetables better…Maybe their father would have too.
  I’d like to see the pictures in a story book for children in the future…
  Let’s show some of the sad countries that we have energy in our country because we are FREE to plant, do art, live life the best we can. We have because we are FREE. We express because we are FREE. We educate because we believe in FREEDOM. We don’t believe in a cast system because we are FREE…. We like our foods because we are FREE. We grow foods freely. We paint foods freely. We sell foods freely and we share our gifts Freely with our poor. Other governments are much crueler to their people and have selfish governing. That is why they are without. Not because we are free to grow, work, do art, live and share. Check out the peace corp and learn how we have been sharing and teaching for years to other countries so they may have a better life. It’s up to their leaders to believe in freedom of their own people to get them to a better quality of life like ours can be.
  Plant your gardens folks and take lots of beautiful photos!!

• Travalgar
  June 4th, 2008 at 2:02 am

  Only idiots complains about the details and misses the big picture in a manner like such. Screw the food-scarcity issue-this art is not the cause of world hunger.

  The important point is that this is art. And a major one at that. Don’t judge it like you judge US invasion or the earthquake disaster.

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