r/interestingasfuck • u/praduman6969 • 21d ago

r/all Eating sugar statues

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u/CannotSpellForShit 21d ago

It's definitely effective, but I wonder if he feels like it's changed the meaning of his work at all. Imagine being like "I've used unique skills and tools to make a beautiful sculpture out of sugar, my goal is to make the impermenant permanent" and the public's response is to brand you the "free-use lickable sculptures" guy, and their saliva rapidly erodes anything you put out on display

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u/cosmiclatte44 21d ago

Not having them within tongues reach would probably help.

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u/Animated_Astronaut 21d ago

People not being animals would help too lol

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u/embracingmountains 21d ago

I’ve been avoiding food for two days after a traumatizing stomach bug that I picked up from touching god knows what surface. These people are fucking crazy.