The Amazing Jell-O Sculptor
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Artists use different mediums to express their creativity. For some its milk bottles, while for others, it's trick photography. San Francisco based photographer and sculptor Liz Hickok's medium of choice? Jell-O - The perfectly moldable gelatin dessert.
Her love affair with the wobbly medium began about four years ago, when she was looking for a suitable material to build a cityscape sculpture of San Francisco. She considered using resin - but besides being difficult to use, it was also very toxic. That's when she came up with the idea of using yummy, malleable multi-colored Jell-O, beginning her unusual career as a Jell-O sculptor.
Her inaugural cityscape sculpture created in 2006, included the entire downtown of San Francisco, complete with skyscrapers, a number of popular San Francisco neighborhoods including the Marina and Twin Peaks, as well as, famous landmarks like the Bay Bridge and Palace of Fine Arts.
Since then, she has created several other Jell-O cities, including Scottsdale, Arizona and Wilmington, Delaware and also done a Jell-O project with some lucky second-graders in North Adams, Massachusetts.
To create her amazing landmarks, the artist starts with scale models of what she wants to reproduce and then, with the help of molds, casts each section in Jello-O. To make the cities look real, Liz paints landscapes like trees and mountains around the structures, and in the case of San Francisco or should we say Jello-O Frisco, she even added some fog! Top this with some beautiful lighting and voila - we have a shimmering (and shaking) edible city!
The only setback to her masterpieces is that they don't last too long. However, Liz does take some great photos, which can be seen and bought at : www.lizhickok.com.
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- catsrulealmost 10 yearsDelicious
- Hemanalmost 10 yearsFunny
- Marvelously700almost 10 yearsYummy! This is so cool!
- wierdoabout 10 yearsit looks so colorful with the light
- 2/3 GEEKblondeyabout 10 yearsyummmy i saw a picture of that
- nikukyuabout 10 yearsWow it looks out of this word!!! Kinda magical...
- imawesome10,000about 10 yearsyummy! i saw a picture of that in a restaurant! i'm getting hungry now!
- 2/3 GEEK blondyabout 10 yearsNow i finally like jello. The only thing wrong is that i don't like the taste No offense jello lovers. <3 kitty face :3
- bulldogeekabout 10 yearsI would eat a whole state of jello!!!!!!!!!!
- spinnypeepsover 10 yearsSweet!