Could this be the cutting edge of edible fashion?

For a beautiful and playful new series entitled Barbapapa, photographer Isabelle Chapuis photographed models wearing cotton candy as hair, jackets, belts, and coats.

Perfect for fashionistas with a sweet tooth. 

[via Le Journal De La Photographie]

Australian art duo Pip & Pop, also known as Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz, create intricately patterned floor installations made of colourful sweets mixed with glitter, beads, toys, sand, and other equally vibrant found objects. It’s an edible neon wonderland! (Just don’t try to eat the glitter, beads, toys, sand, etc.)

These bright little worlds appear to have magically grown up out of the floor and feel like a fanciful blend of fairytales, Japanese pop art, and mandalas. We wish there was a level in one of the Katamari Damacy games that looked like this. 

Visit My Modern Metropolis to view even mor photos of Pip & Pop’s awesome installations. Don’t linger too long though, you might develop cavities.

By way, these sugary installations remind us of some of the work by a Portland, OR art duo known as Apak. If you like the art of Pip & Pop you might enjoy a peek at Apak’s paintings too.

If you could recreate one of your unique fingerprints in any medium, what would you choose? 

The aptly titled series Fingerprints by artist Kevin Van Aelst showcases the Connecticut-based artist’s intricate fingerprint patterns created in different mediums. Aelst literally and figuratively leaves his mark on typical settings using unconventional mediums that also happen to be common materials used in everyday life. A giant maze of tape pulled out of a cassette outlines the patterns of the artist’s right index finger while a series of meticulously aligned strands of thread unspooled from its ball of yarn recreates an impression left by the artist’s left index finger on the ground.

Selected prints from this series can be purchased on Eye Buy Art.

[via My Modern Metropolis]

Just like any cake decorator would, Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller uses sugar icing to create delicate patterns of lines, shapes, and flowers. The one main difference with Miller, though, is that she’s not baking cakes. Miller is an installation artist who creates many of her intricate artworks outside. She uses edible blue paint on white sugar tiles, and then affixes the tiles on to the walls with icing. Yum!

In much of her art, Miller explores the unpredictable impermanence of objects in relation to time, weather, and historical authenticity. By sculpting in public, outdoor spaces, her installations could last for hours, days, or weeks. Some may last for months while others could just as easily wash away in the rain the very same day they are made.

As each outdoor sculpture decays over time and the pieces begin to fade away, her work directly investigates memory and history. Miller’s project is described as a “retelling of history, and an exploration into how juxtaposed and/or omitted images can greatly modify interpretation, not unlike the construction and destruction of memory and history itself.”

Visit My Modern Metropolis to view more photos of Shelley Miller’s awesome icing art.

If we ever encounter one of Shelley’s pieces in person we cannot promise that we won’t at least attempt to lick it. Could you resist the temptation?

Here’s a peek inside an awesome and, as far as we’re concerned, magical place that we’ve always wanted to visit, the marshmallow Peep factory! Whether you prefer them fresh or stale, Easter just wouldn’t be the same without them. Actually, these days, pretty much any holiday would be lackluster without a few sugary peeps to hand.

The New York Times recently went inside the Pennsylvania-based, family-owned Just Born factory and shot some great images of how their Peeps marshmallow candies are made. The full set of images can be found at The New York Times.

It takes six minutes to make a Peep. Ingredients are mixed, air is injected and the emerging Peep is blasted with a sugar shower and decorated with two tiny eyes made of edible wax.

Photos by Nikolas Koenig 

[via Laughing Squid]