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Thai artist bakes edible 'body parts'
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-04 21:01
POTHARAM, Thailand - Inside a dark room, realistic-looking "human body parts"
are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a
mortuary or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it's a bakery. What
appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of 28-year-old art
student Kittiwat Unarrom.
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bakery worker, Kittiwat Unarrom, 28, sculptures bread that resemble body
parts in Ratchaburi province, 100 km (62 miles) west of Bangkok, September
4, 2005. [Reuters] | "Of course, people were
shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew
the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself,
instead of thinking that I am crazy," said the fine arts masters degree student.
He hopes his realistic artwork will make people ponder whether they are
consuming food, or food is consuming them.
"Everyone's life is rushed nowadays, even when it comes to eating," he said.
"When we eat, we don't think about our health or safety, we only think of our
taste buds."
As an undergraduate art student, Kittiwat started painting portraits. He then
moved to mixed media and finally dough — a natural medium for him since his
family runs a bakery.
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