I grew a few carrots in my borders this year. Not as veg really, more for the frondy green foliage for use as a backdrop for the French marigolds I planted.
I like mixing flowers and vegetables, it creates an interesting texture to my planting.
But stuff gets out of hand as August progresses, so yesterday I decided to dispense with them and pull the carrots not really expecting them to have any edible root.
So here’s what I got – Dali carrots. The most twisted surreal carrots I think I’ve ever seen, all mine to be arranged to make my surrealist kitchen landscape.
I’m not sure that I’ll eat them though, what if they taste of something other than carrot? They could taste of giraffe or tiger or even melting clocks. Well, you know what us surrealists are like – anything is possible.
I call it ‘Dali carrots with attending avocado’
I am a jaynius!
Andy Lloyd commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteImpressive. The fat, green carrot is seriously weird! Our carrots were all less than 2cm long.
God I'm pleased with that top image. It took me ages to arrange my carrots, each one has a personality and a story but more importantly - they are living entities in a landscape and all on my kitchen work surface.
ReplyDeleteDali - EAT YOUR HEART OUT.
Joan Dixon Texted:
ReplyDeleteI am actually quite disturbed by that image.
Thanks Joan. It worked then. All it is is some cutting boards, my carrots and an avocado - but yes, it is pretty visceral isn't it.
ReplyDeleteOurs rotted while we were on holiday. A bit extreme to commit suicide to protest neglect.
ReplyDeleteYour arrangement puts me in mind of a group of lumbering zombie carrots lurching to taste fresh avocado brains. The avocado doesn't stand a chance. On the other hand (pardon the pun) the sprouting on the bottom left hand carrot is a spit for my Grandma Walker's deformed left thumb nail. I'm not mixed up... honest.
Ha! Look deepere Ian.
ReplyDeleteVicky Sutcliffe texted:
ReplyDelete;-))!
I replied - Happiness is easy (Talk Talk)
Phil Morgan commented on Facebook: T
ReplyDeletehis looks like a Hieronymus Bosch Carrot hell, fantastic shot. Obviously well thought out and carefully lit. Great work Heighty lad.
They are seriously weird and hysterically funny, keep growing them. BTW I hate marigolds, what is the point of them?
ReplyDeleteThey are orange and orange is the colour of hope.
ReplyDeletePhil Morgan commented on Facebook.
ReplyDeletePhil wrote "No, honestly, it really is an unusual, weird, bizarre photo. I love it."
Phil Morgan commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeletePhil wrote "Trudy says you're a creative genius and thinks you should put this in for next years Turner prize because it's far better than the crap that usually wins."
Ian Maclachlan commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteI agree. Call Brian Sewell... or don't call Brian Sewell.
Sometimes I feel useless and like shit. Sometimes I have no idea what to do or how to do it. And then I find a few carrots and make a whole universe of creativity.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is easy.
David Bell commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteAnn Summers carrots
Andrew Height on Facebook: The art of vegetables... I'm mentallllll
ReplyDeleteAnd then my sister Della Jayne Roberts replied:
Me too ... x
One last time - I am so proud of this image that I am made happy by it.
ReplyDeleteJust a few carrots and an avocado... but how powerful and disturbing it is.
Which ones you?
ReplyDeleteCatherine Halls-Jukes on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteLOve the picture, and was sent on a train of thoughts of all it not always what it seems on the top, and sometimes things change direction because of the obstacles put in our way, but then they sometime change again because of the angle we grow....think this is what has happened to me over the years................
Phil Ogden commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeletePhil wrote "C'Mon Andy - this is a David Hockney set design for Carmen! Or should I say 'Carrot-men'?"