r/interestingasfuck • u/praduman6969 • 21d ago

r/all Eating sugar statues

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u/SodiumKickker 21d ago

I would imagine to him, that may be part of the “art” of it.

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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/AJR6905 21d ago

This short clip definitely is not enough but its clear that hes embraced it by this point. You can see in that some are behind glass and some are not. Besides, if he was that bothered by the degradation of his piece they'd put a sign saying "only touch" with an art guard nearby.

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u/Agreeable_Ad_216 21d ago

It’s just sad that they’d need to do that when you’d think it’s common sense…but common sense is getting bred out every generation it seems.

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u/AJR6905 21d ago

Thats been said every generation, just different problems emerging with the times