For my own final series of images, I wanted to showcase how objects can be a unique product of the very environment around them. My series, Hard Liquor, takes a look at some iconic spirits – Scottish, Irish and American whiskies, English gin, Polish vodka and Portuguese port.
Common to all distillery production is the use of local ingredients for the base spirit and local aromatics for flavouring so, to express the environment from which each of these distinctive spirits have arisen, I have chosen to look at the ‘hard’ ingredients that give each spirit its distinctive taste, smell and look. Having researched the ingredients used in creating different spirits, I have sketched (below) how I plan my final pieces to look. These sketches are based on a readily available but typical bottle shape for each; the actual bottle shape in the final photograph will very much depend on the brand selected.
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| Vodka |
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| Scotch whisky |
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| American whiskey |
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| Port |
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| Gin |
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