Ame Shin’s sculptural lollipops blur the line between candy and art. At first glance, these intricately crafted treats don’t seem edible at all. Cats, squids, snakes, fish, and more are rendered with astonishing realism, turning everyday sweets into miniature sculptures. It was confectionery as curiosity.
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Sweets Portraits by Photographer James Ostrer
Photographer James Ostrer documents our obsession with sugar in a series of grotesque real life portraits of people covered in layers of sweets and junk food. Speaking largely on the to the global food production and increasingly dangerous methods of mass production, Ostrer’s photographs conjure tribal images that are both fascinating and repulsive. Via the press release, “This adornment becomes a mask of what we eat which then becomes entwined with a hyper-pop sensibility and an obsequious inquiry into the great volumes of sugar that flow through our bodies.”