Chocolate Suicide Bombers

Stephen J Shanabrook Uses Sweets to Create Morbid Art

Stephen J Shanabrook thinks that chocolate is so much more than a delicious treat. The New York and Moscow-based artist uses this sweet as a medium as well as a metaphor.

His pieces include a suicide bomber blown to bits made entirely out of chocolate as well as chocolates shaped as human body parts such as ears and fingers placed delicately inside a decorated chocolate box.

Chocolate is apparently a medium for death. Check it out above!

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Industries Being Reshaped

Art
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SCORE
4.9 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen X
  • Millennial (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 72%
Activity 68%
Freshness 8%

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