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April 3, 2010: Mother Load
Putting an incredible amount of time and effort into creating something that's absolutely useless, except for looking at... I guess that would make it art.
While the structural framework is wood, the entire 9.5ft x 6ft x 5.5ft, visible surface, is sugar.
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"The Australian artist Timothy Horn has a fondness for taking historical objects out of context and altering their scale and materials. ~snip~ The three large-scale works that make up the show were inspired by objects in the decorative-arts collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (which include the de Young and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor), and by the rags-to-riches story of Alma Spreckels, the colorful collector whose sugar fortune was used to found the Legion of Honor museum, which opened in 1924. Sugar, not surprisingly, is a dominant theme. “Mother-Load,” shown here, is a child-size Cinderella carriage encrusted in crystallized rock sugar. |
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SPUCK Saturday Apr 3 06:26 AM
OHMYGAWD LOOKIT THE ANTS!
Logan's Run Saturday Apr 3 06:57 AM
Looks like a deep fried Model T
Adak Saturday Apr 3 08:27 AM
Spreckels strikes again!
Spreckels was one of the main players in the early days of San Diego, and San Francisco, as well.
I wish Horn had left the coach in wood,and painted it as it would have been painted during it's era. Got to drag an artist to the paints, that's a new one! 
Crystallized sugar all over, just gives it all a sameness of color that tends to hide the detail of his wonderful coach.
Trilby Saturday Apr 3 08:30 AM
sugar...is there anything it can't do?
DanaC Saturday Apr 3 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
sugar...is there anything it can't do?
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Trilby Saturday Apr 3 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by DanaC
Bring about world peace?
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Don't blame the victim, Dana. It's an ugly practice.
hipshot Saturday Apr 3 12:51 PM
For a moment, I thought it was bacon....
Kinda hopin' 
Gravdigr Sunday Apr 4 02:56 PM
When I first read 'Alma Spreckels', I thought it said 'Annie Sprinkle'.
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