December 4, 2005
pour some sugar on me
The NY Times has a delightful article today about Will Cotton, who makes art out of candy. I love candy! I love candy colors, and candy corns, and candy canes, and just about anything having to do with candy. I watch shows like “Follow That Chocolate!” and “Unwrapped” (which goes inside candy factories) on the Food Network. I also like art, although not to quite the same giddy degree. So it tickles my fancy to see Cotton’s fantasia of fanciful food:
Like any sensible young artiste, he went to France to study macaroon-making:
Lately, Cotton has peopled his Candy Land scenes with girls clad in panties, various underpinnings and hats made from fondant icing. They sit perched odalisque-style, naturally, on cotton-candy clouds.
I only wish I could miniaturize myself and live amongst those lovely macaroon trees and fluffy marshmallow lagoons and fondant icing hats and cotton candy clouds…and…and…eat them.