I too, like Oldenburg wanted to experiment with objects from the consumer merchandise and contemporary culture.
In order to put this into my practise and explore further, I started to play with iconic packaging and thinking of ways of deconstructing and then rebuilding them on a bigger scale.
I have been thinking about the form of 3D shapes such as cubes, cylinders, squares, circles, rectangles etc. I began by finding a shape, which I could easily work with. Because I wanted to use an object that everyone would recognise upon seeing, I decided on an OXO cube, which is made by Campbell’s.
Campbell’s soup was a subject of Andy Warhol’s in the 1960’s Pop art. I started by getting an original sized OXO cube and carefully dismantling the box. Once this box was laid out flat I could scan the image onto my computer and then enlarge it to the scale I wanted it at.
