Friday, August 28, 2009

Chocolate Death


















In the 1990s, Shanabrook, who spent his youth working at a chocolate factory, went to morgues in Russia and the US and made molds from the fatal wounds of anonymous people, cast dark chocolate pieces, placing them into luxury chocolate boxes. The series of works, which Shanabrook described as "very close to the edge, the forbidden place for artists," are essentially representations of death or what one critic called "bonbons of mortality."


Click here for more photos of these disquieting confections.

(Via Pumpkinrot)

2 comments:

JUNKER JANE said...

:D I so love your blog!!!!

"Bones" said...

And my blog loves you! (He just told me so. Please don't tell his wife though.)

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