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Seed Art - Foodie Flicks



As foodies, we're automatically inclined to take every morsel of what's given to us and deposit it right into our mouths. But food is also ripe for art -- not just the Alinea-type awe inspired on the plate, but as ingredients for inedible creations. This week's Foodie Flicks heads to Cooking Up a Story to celebrate the seriously impressive seeds and deets of Portland's Cathy Camper.

When some artist friends decided to enter the Minnesota State Fair's juried arts show, Camper took a different route. She entered the seed art competition, set up to promote the seeds and crops of Minnesota. But she didn't take the tacky route and recreate Elvis or lather her portraits in shtick. She recreated famous figures she was drawn to -- Frida Kahlo, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Bob Marley and even Haile Selassie. Delighting in the process, Camper explains that the art is not in the end product, but the growth of meeting artistic challenges and finding ways to beat them. And really, that seems to be the only way to do it. As she notes, these funky, food-filled art pieces aren't permanent. Just like any piece of edible fare, they discolor, age and lose their life. But at least for a moment, they're impressive.

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Tags: Cathy Camper, CathyCamper, food art, FoodArt, foodie-flicks, seed art, SeedArt, seeds

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Cooking Up a Story

10-03-2009 @10:53AM Cooking Up a Story said... Thanks for sharing this, Monika! If anyone becomes as fascinated with this art form, as I did, there is a whole website dedicated to seed art - also known as crop art - featuring lots of different artists and their work. You can find it here: http://cropart.com/
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