Peter becomes the consequences
After reading the task brief, Peter jokes that the immediate and obvious thing for him to do would be to create a portrait of a thinking Hans – and just submit the blank canvas.
He then goes to the kitchen in search of items to use – and comes across Cecilie’s bag of discarded items, which has not been thrown out as allegedly requested. Peter makes a deal with Mark: if he is allowed to use items from the trash, he will then take the trash out. Mark readily agrees. Peter takes the bag back to the lab and Mark follows, giving a knowing look to the camera.
In the lab, Peter starts drawing on a piece of layer cake with ketchup. Mark – echoing Cecilie’s earlier words – asks if the cake is meant to be a kind of canvas. After transferring his work from the table of paints to the easel on the floor – and adding hair made out of brown frosting – Peter uses slices of cheese to make Hans’ body (and, later, a few slices of raw bacon). He then uses bananas to give Hans arms and legs.
When Mark asks if Peter has finished, Peter says that he has not, and Mark helpfully agrees that Peter might as well keep using things that are in the bag. Peter pulls out a kitchen knife (which Cecilie had used to slice her banana) and – admitting that he doesn’t know why he’s doing it – sticks it into one of the bananas, making a knife-wielding Hans. Mark wonders if by doing so, Peter has actually just made a portrait of Cecilie instead.
As he uses the ketchup to write Hans’ name on the canvas, Peter admits that he is worried about using it, because one of the others may have had the same idea. For his final touches, Peter adds a few grapes to Hans’ body to give it the illusion of clothing buttons. When Mark asks if Peter might be able to use the grape stems as well, Peter thinks about it for a moment, and then places a particularly small stem between Hans’ ‘legs’.
Peter states that he is worried about using anything else, and that if he does need to add anything else, he’ll repurpose something he has already used. With another knowing look to the camera, Mark agrees that it would be a shame if Peter was disqualified.
Peter packs up his used items and says that he is off to throw them away. Mark agrees that he should, as trash that is just left sitting out “can bite you in the ass”.
As Peter almost exclusively uses items that Cecilie had used to create her own portrait, he is disqualified.
(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)
