A favorite craft among school age children is using dry pasta as a medium—with their little hands they create necklaces, mosaics and other sorts of hodgepodge. With maturity, that seed of an idea sprouts into a high-concept form, as adult artists also enjoy playing with their food. With their larger hands, these artists create impressive works—portraits with red wine, sculptures of butter, mosaics of beans.
Madina Papadopoulos is a New York-based freelance writer, author, and regular contributor to Paste. You can follow her adventures on Instagram and Twitter.
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Hemingway by Amanda Harnas
Medium: Red wine on cotton
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Pars parvola ventris tauri, linguae roseae anitum by Heide Hatry (2008)
Medium: duck tongues, parts of a stomach of a bull.
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A Subtlelty by Kara Walker
Medium: Sugar
Photo by Jason Wyche, courtesy of Creative Time.
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All About the One Piece by Hiroshi Kariya (1998)
Medium: Ink on White California Bean
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Devotion by Jennifer Rubell (2015)
Medium: Bread and butter, Performance at Art Basel Miami Beach
Photos by Chi Lam and courtesy of Jennifer Rubell
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Peanut Butter and Jelly of Taste Tests Series by Matthew Brandt (2009)
Medium: Multi-layer silkscreen printed with peanut butter and jelly on paper
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Cow Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Jim Victor and Marie Pelton (2015)
Medium: Butter on steel