I posted about edible landscapes yesterday, in reference to Carl Warner's photographs of happy broccoli forests and nifty Parmesan cheese villages.
Well reading more, I stumbled onto a site featuring English artist Gayle Chong Kwan, essentially Warner's darker twin. Kwan also makes and photographs edible landscapes, but hers are sinister, decaying. Think shadowy jungles of rotting lettuce, desolate icy wildernesses made of butter and lard. Kwan calls the project "Cockaigne," after a mythological glutton's paradise from the 14th century, where the streets are paved with pastry and the sky rains cheese. The photographs are intended as a critique of global tourism, consumerism and the quest for utopia. Heavy stuff, and startlingly beautiful.
Chocolate-stuffed bananas on the grill
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Beware kids' menus!
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2-28-2008 @ 7:13PM
reldwn said...
is it'' sinister'' in the way our countrys elderly buy the ''reduced'' blemished ,produce ,because they are counting every nickle ,in order to purchase medicine instead of '' rosy apples'' or ''crisp green beans''?
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