Jan
08

Leah Foster, of Dilley, Texas creates awesome art installations using cupcakes that will either make your stomach growl or ache. She has now baked tens of thousands of cupcakes for her art, stringing them together to create towers of the little desserts and using them as a message exploring “gender-based body image expectations.”

An art student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, Leah “has baked more than 13,000 cupcakes for just two of her projects, but has lost count of the total number she has put in the oven.” Apparently nothing extra is used to preserve the cupcakes, but Leah does need to ensure that they are solid enough to avoid falling apart when she stacks them together.

Miss Foster told MailOnline: “I started baking the cupcakes as a way to explore gender-based body image expectations. It started out because cupcakes were a guilty pleasure for me. I’d bake them all the time, but never eat them. I really began to question the idea of the guilty pleasure. Was it for health reasons or for vanity? Was it because I’ve been taught that there is a certain image that I need to fit in order to be a presentable woman? I also began to identify with what I call the duality of the cupcake - this attraction and repulsion that exist at the same time.”

Read more about Leah Foster and her cupcake art installations over at Dailymail.co.uk]

Source Daily Mail

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    i fucking love art
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    the whole Thing With Cupcakes is so weird it’s like they’re committed to taking food as far away from being food as...
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    ……………………Sweet Jesus.
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    did she seriously she got a feature in the daily mail for this waste of time/food?“the duality of the...
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    Right?!
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    This angers me. I could have eaten those cupcakes!
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    See this is why i don’t think i can be a gallery artist. Because my practical side is just screaming “HOW COULD YOU...
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    DAMN THATS ALOT OF CUPCKAES!!!
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