Elizabeth Hickock...

[fajrdrako]

An artist named Elizabeth Hickock is making cities (or parts of them) in jello. There's a set of her pictures of it here or here. I like the jewel tones of her lighting.

Artists find what media they like and it's a strange, surreal world. I am amused by her comment "the scuptures quickly decay". If it was me, I'd eat them before they could fall over. Perhaps being ephemeral is part of the charm of this form for her? It doesn't quite have the panache of Michelangelo working in marble. I can't help wondering if it's just too gimmmicky to really be art by my definition. Is that snobbish? Probably.

Perhaps I should mention that one of my shameful little secrets is that I actually like jello - to eat, I mean. Hickock seems to be proving that it can be beautiful as well.

Comments

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

thanks,
it looked a bit like a shiny fallen tetris tower

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it?

Seems to me there's some sort of connection in my mind between the news items lately about the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake and the sense of Hickock recreating the city in jello so it... wiggles. Prettily.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

mmm, a re-creation of the San Fransisco earthquake will be less pretty though.
Lets hope it will take a while...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

a re-creation of the San Fransisco earthquake will be less pretty though.

It would look like jello salad, all the colours mixed up together!

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

mmm, a re-creation of the San Fransisco earthquake will be less pretty though.
Lets hope it will take a while...

[dargie.livejournal.com]

These really are amazing. I would guess that with the heat from the lighting they melt very quickly. If I was going to do something that large scale with jello, I'd work in a very cool room and only light it when I was ready to photograph things. Thanks for the link.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I thought you'd appreciate it. There's something weird and even tacky about the concept of jello art, until you look at it and think: whoa, there's something worth noticing there. It's remarkable.