Fruitless, A Quirky Photo Series of Everyday Household Items Posing as Potted Plants
A post shared by PUTPUT (@putput.dk) on Sep 1, 2015 at 2:49am PDT
In 2015, Stephan Friedli and Ulrik Martin Larsen of the artistic duo PutPut created "Fruitless", a quirky photo series that depicted everyday household items as potted plants. They filled terracotta planters with dirt into which they placed such items as combs, shoehorns and rubber gloves, all of which looked a lot like the real thing.
The Fruitless series depicts a vast selection of everyday objects, toys and trinkets as potted plants. Emulating shapes found in nature these dead objects take on a life of their own as they are re-contextualised. The initial function of the objects is obscured and hidden which redirects the focus to pure form, texture and colour.
A post shared by PUTPUT (@putput.dk) on Dec 3, 2015 at 2:24am PST
A post shared by PUTPUT (@putput.dk) on Oct 20, 2015 at 2:42am PDT
A post shared by PUTPUT (@putput.dk) on Jun 2, 2015 at 2:36am PDT
A post shared by PUTPUT (@putput.dk) on Jan 10, 2017 at 2:10am PST
via designboom, Colossal