Crystallised ginger, illustration

Sepia ink on watercolour paper illustration of crystallised ginger candy (ginger and cane sugar), as seen through a scanning electron microscope. Crystallised ginger no longer conforms to the natural, hollow honeycomb pattern found in raw ginger. It has been transformed into the irregular swollen forms seen here. The scale of the drawing is over 2000X. These drawings form part of a series of work "Raw to Processed" which considers food and its relationship to health, looking at patterns in the structure of food and how these change when food is processed.