Application has been made to the Guinness book of records to have a £111.95 cheese sandwich recognized as the most expensive. The gourmet sandwich created by the chef Martin Blunos, who is a celebrity on UK television. Blunos’ goumet sandwich has been creating attention at the Somerset Frome Cheese Show, through his use of cheddar, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar dressing, blended with white truffles on sourdough bread. The expensive price results from the use of highest quality ingredients, especially the special blended cheddar with white truffles created in a double layer.  Blunos constructed his creation with layered cheese, quail’s egg slices, fresh figs, extra virgin olive oil dressing, heirloom black tomato and epicure apple. Finally garnished with pea shoots, mustard red frills and red amaranth.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

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