PASS THE BREAD.....
Remember that old expression we are what we eat? It, of course, means different things to different people. Hannibal Lector might have taken it too far. But, let’s think about it. Many people consider dining on organs a gourmet experience. No, not the kind of organ you find in a church, ninny, organs like: kidneys, intestines, brains and in certain Arab countries – eyes and the occasional upper lip.
Scientists have different opinions about whether eating organs is good for you or dangerous. I can’t believe that eating an animal’s gall bladder or spleen can make you jump higher or yodel better. But, to each his own….
A fella living in Potharam, Thailand has taken this notion to the nth degree. 28-year old Kittiwat Unarrom – you remember old Kittiwat, don’t you? He once tried to mail himself to Jupiter but forgot to put down the correct zip code. Anyway, this young man is in love with ‘body parts.’ I’m sure his poor mother is shaking her head and saying, “Automobile parts I can understand but body parts?”
Inside a dark room, realistic-looking “human body parts” are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a mortuary from an old Vincent Price movie or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it’s a bakery. What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of this art student. Instead of working with clay, marble or granite like most artists Unarrom (which sounds like the noise a hot motorcycle makes) prefers to work with Wonder bread.
“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy,” said the obviously loony fine arts master’s degree student. He hopes his realistic artwork will make people ponder whether they are consuming food, or food is consuming them. After uttering this nonsensical statement his brain should have been baked in a challah and used for Passover.
As an undergraduate art student, Kittiwat started painting portraits. He then moved to mixed media and finally to dough – a natural medium for him since his family runs a bakery. He even fooled around with bagels for a while but the police put a stop to that.
Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet and chicken and pig parts. “Would anybody like to bite into this pig snout made out of the finest pumpernickel?” Art shmart this young man is out of his tree and should be the first in line for a frontal lobotomy.
Believe it or not he is now receiving regular orders from the curious and from pranksters who want to surprise their friends by presenting house-warming gifts like: a nose, ear, big toe, labium and badly mutilated skull…which can be smeared with butter or cream cheese.
By the end of the year his confectionary slaughterhouse will go on display at Bangkok’s Silpakorn University along with an MIR of Kittiwat’s pea brain. It’s his final dissertation, and he hopes it will secure him a Master of Arts Degree and a long prison sentence. Thailand has long had a problem with narcotics and it’s easy to speculate that young Unarrom inhaled too many balloons of dope.
“When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread,” he said. “The lesson is don’t judge just by outer appearances.” I might also add don’t judge a real art student from a schmuck 28-year old cannibal in training.
Scientists have different opinions about whether eating organs is good for you or dangerous. I can’t believe that eating an animal’s gall bladder or spleen can make you jump higher or yodel better. But, to each his own….
A fella living in Potharam, Thailand has taken this notion to the nth degree. 28-year old Kittiwat Unarrom – you remember old Kittiwat, don’t you? He once tried to mail himself to Jupiter but forgot to put down the correct zip code. Anyway, this young man is in love with ‘body parts.’ I’m sure his poor mother is shaking her head and saying, “Automobile parts I can understand but body parts?”
Inside a dark room, realistic-looking “human body parts” are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a mortuary from an old Vincent Price movie or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it’s a bakery. What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of this art student. Instead of working with clay, marble or granite like most artists Unarrom (which sounds like the noise a hot motorcycle makes) prefers to work with Wonder bread.
“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy,” said the obviously loony fine arts master’s degree student. He hopes his realistic artwork will make people ponder whether they are consuming food, or food is consuming them. After uttering this nonsensical statement his brain should have been baked in a challah and used for Passover.
As an undergraduate art student, Kittiwat started painting portraits. He then moved to mixed media and finally to dough – a natural medium for him since his family runs a bakery. He even fooled around with bagels for a while but the police put a stop to that.
Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet and chicken and pig parts. “Would anybody like to bite into this pig snout made out of the finest pumpernickel?” Art shmart this young man is out of his tree and should be the first in line for a frontal lobotomy.
Believe it or not he is now receiving regular orders from the curious and from pranksters who want to surprise their friends by presenting house-warming gifts like: a nose, ear, big toe, labium and badly mutilated skull…which can be smeared with butter or cream cheese.
By the end of the year his confectionary slaughterhouse will go on display at Bangkok’s Silpakorn University along with an MIR of Kittiwat’s pea brain. It’s his final dissertation, and he hopes it will secure him a Master of Arts Degree and a long prison sentence. Thailand has long had a problem with narcotics and it’s easy to speculate that young Unarrom inhaled too many balloons of dope.
“When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread,” he said. “The lesson is don’t judge just by outer appearances.” I might also add don’t judge a real art student from a schmuck 28-year old cannibal in training.
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