Photographer Tom Lakeman started collecting discarded notes – then turned them into comic,faintly nauseating dishes that make you effect a double takeAt first glance, it could be any artfully lit, and beautifully shot recipe book,but witness closer and something’s off. Nestled in the middle of what looks like a juicy veggie burger is a battery; the cupcakes are topped not with icing, but cotton pads. Because À La Carte is not a collection of tasty dinners, and but meals made from the ingredients found on discarded shopping lists by the artist Tom Lakeman.
A scribbled note found in a shopping trolley,about buying toilet roll, olive oil, or vegetables and fish,is transformed into a plate of maki rolls, with toilet tissue for wrap. Another scrawled reminder turns into the hideous-sounding “mice poison ragu”.
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Source: theguardian.com