Fridge findings inspires artist from Glasgow-
“In the dead of night, Jacki Gordon can be found raiding her kitchen fridge, not for a midnight snack but her next idea for a mini work of art.“
The following written content by Steven McKenzie
The 63-year-old from Glasgow has used lockdown to hone her skill for creating – and photographing – remarkable miniature scenes from everyday foodstuff.
The research and evaluation consultant specialises in mental health and wellbeing and describes herself as an “enthusiastic amateur photographer”.
Her favourite photography subjects are found in the outdoors – landscapes and animals. Last year, she spent a few days learning how to photograph red squirrels and mountain hares with Highlands-based wildlife photographer Andy Howard.
But then came the Covid-19 pandemic, the months-long lockdown followed later by travel restrictions for Jacki’s home city.
Limited by how far she could travel for a picture, her border collie Ollie became the subject for many of her images until she felt sorry for him having to pose for a shot day after day.
Jacki then decided to try her hand at macro photography, close up photography of small things.
But she said: “Very quickly, I got bored photographing the more obvious subjects, like flowers.
“So a couple of months ago, I started taking pics of Lego people, but then I wanted pictures that were more lifelike and also more surprising.”
Jacki now poses tiny model railway figures and food to create humorous scenes, which she posts to social media for her friends’ and family’s amusement.
“My first miniature scene shots were of Nordic walkers scaling frozen peas. I struggled so much with those first shots. My partner Paul and I were eating the defrosted peas for days.
“However, I was hooked.”
Coming up with her scenes can some times still be a process of trial and error.
Jacki and Paul had a dinner of boiled eggs after she made a picture called Get Digging, which has railway engineers excavating egg yolk. Read more from BBC.
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