ART STUDENT Ceri Davies had spent month planning her exhibit—34 red jellies displayed on 17 plates set out in an arc on
ART STUDENT Ceri Davies had spent month planning her exhibit—34 red jellies displayed on 17 plates set out in an arc on the fllor the Midlands Arts Centre,Birmingham.
The work was meant to be on display for three weeks and Ms Davies' intention was that as time passed the jewel—like jellies woule begin to gather mould and decay,offering a visual metaphor for the way the human body decay after death.On the fourth day of the exhibition,however,a member of staff mistook her creation for the leftover from a party at centre's restaurant and,scraping the jellies from their plates,dumped them in a nearby dustbin.
"I could believe my eyes.Months of hard work had just gone to waste.I was quite horrified,"said Ms Davies,who is taking a Master of Central England,Birmingham."The actual jellies didn't take long to make,but months of thought and planning had gone into their creation.When I first made them,they looked jewel—like,very fresh,shiny and red.The whole point of the exhibition was that the jellies should shrivel change shape and go dull and mouldy.I wanted to use food that resembled the body in some way and to remind people of what happens after they die.The jellies had just started to go moudly when the officer in charge of the building for some reason just collected up the plates and scrape the jelly off."
A spokeswoman for the center said,"It was a genuine mistake and the person is very sorry.But one of the jellies was really mouldy and smelling badly.They hadn't put a sign to suggest it was part of an exhibition.
An art student Ceri Davies spent months preparing for her exhibit, in which the decaying process of jellies would give human a living example of their own death. However, it is a pity that she didn't sign the jellies in decaying and so a staff disposed the mouldy jellies.