Planning For 3D Image

Yesterday and today has been spent planning for the photographic image with some kind of 3D element, because its been clouding up my head for a while now. I think its the kind of thing I wouldn't usually even consider doing so I'm pretty sure thats why I've been putting it off for so long, but with things like this its always best to just get stuck into it and hope you get more excited about it as the project goes along I think. 

I wanted to do something that reflected one of the main parts of my personality, and I had a little brainstorm to try and think what my biggest traits in life were and the obvious things came up like sloths, and food. So this time I decided to focus on food as its something I'm not as openly passionate about as sloths. At first I thought about just doing a bit of camera trickery and putting a massive cake close to the camera and standing behind it with my arms out to make it look like my body was the cake. 

However

I'm quite limited as to what I can do with the camera work because the only thing I have to work with is my phone camera :(. Therefore whatever I decided on needed to be on quite a small scale to be photographed well. So I thought about the fact that all my friends say I should be a competitive eater and that theres so many types of foods I'm obsessed with. 

My plan: 
OK so I'm planning to have a cutout of me sitting at a dolls table with lots of crazy, tiny food on the table and maybe some part guests and decorations? I also obviously wanted it to look super weird to reflect my personality. I was lucky enough to find a dolls table and chair set that my Great Grandad made years ago, in the loft, as well as a ridiculously creepy doll that went with it (bonus). I also thought this idea was one of the most playful and fun, which not only reflects my personality and way of thinking (I hope?) but also seems to be a running theme throughout the work I'm creating. I'm quite happy with this because personally I'm always more drawn to work with a playful element to it, maybe I see it as a form of escapism?

Polymer Clay:
To make the food I knew I'd have to get it to quite a small scale but also have a range of colours to make it look realistic, and having already used air-dry grey clay to make some figurines before, decided that wasn't the way to go. This is a project that needs to be completed quite quickly as theres so much else going on so polymer clay is so much better as it drys so quickly, and is already coloured so doesn't need painting. Its so easy to work with I don't know why I've not used it before, but I'll for sure use it again, however I am aware that it requires a high level of craft which might take me a few days to master. For me the spaghetti and meatballs were the most satisfying to make because, well, look at them. SO TINY. And theres something so satisfying in the fact that they're so instantly recognisable as meatballs and spaghetti even though they're not!

Wooden chairs, doll and friends

Teeny tiny food

Next: 

Next step is to fill the table with more food, or possibly plates and cutlery and things just to make the table look a bit more exciting. Then I'm going to dress the scene, with tiny paper decorations and find a nice setting for it, with good light! Then I also need to photograph myself and print it out to scale.