Stephen J Shanabrook Uses Sweets to Create Morbid Art
Shelby Lee Walsh — July 8, 2009 — Social Good
References: stephenshanabrook & eatmedaily
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!
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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