Solving Nutritional Deficiency

I think that most North Americans eat foods that are either void of nutrients or not meeting even minimum standards of nutrition. This has to do with many factors including the industrialization of food production, post-war generations raised on processed and convenience foods, lack of availability, urbanization, economic factors or even social stigma. This nutrition deficiency leads to lack of energy and well being and as we age, can progress towards illness and preventable diseases such as diabetes or heart disease.

Today there is a food revolution happening and mainstream media is finally taking note. Governmental guidelines are changing for the better year after year even due to the corporate food lobby.

With information at our fingertips via the internet and social networking, anyone can easily access information about eating healthy today if they want to.

I'm not interested in creating more information but to create a way to use color to serve as a reminder.

My audience is teen through adult who are getting the information in bits and pieces and now that information has become repetitive ambient noise (or nagging).

My visual sculptures will hope to inspire people to remember to eat and buy foods that contain the colors of the color wheel. The foods highest in pigment contain the highest phytonutrients or nutrition.

1)My first solution is to create a mobile of abstract color forms that suggest fruits and vegetables.

2) My second idea is to create a cube made of black wire so you just see the frame. there will be a curtain of black "beaded" wire surrounding the box. but if you move aside the black curtain, the brilliant hues of nature's nutritious foods will be hidden inside.

3) The third idea can be in information wheel. I could have a color wheel on the top layer with a cut out window. the bottom layer will have a color wheel of fruits and vegetables corresponding to that color.