more still life: cake / sexts

These are the remaining images from our second still life shoot when there was no longer daylight to shoot in, but I actually like the soft pink light which we achieved with a lava lamp. We still wanted to use cake as it links slightly to our previous shoot and also the involvement of food at our launch party, as well as the fact that cakes are usually given as a gift or gesture towards somebody.

We took this use of cakes as a gift and decorated them with somewhat explicit or provocative messages which are often sent as ‘sexts’ in our contemporary dating culture. These demanding and less-than-romantic statements are things most people our age have been sent, or have sent themselves, and so by juxtaposing them with extravagantly decorated cakes conveys a lighthearted commentary on the lukewarm sentiment of these online relationships.

The images aim to provoke the viewer into wondering how they would feel if these ‘sext messages’ were, rather than being sent through cyberspace at 2am, presented to them by their love interest on a cake as a romantic gesture.