Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jess Speaker's Carvings


From 2005's carved peppers and cucumber...











To last year's carved coconut...












Jess has always thought outside the box as far as introducing vegetables to flame for All Hallow's Eve. This year's creation has an air of the holiday, and I mean more of a prelude to Christmas, feel. Behold the Brussel Tree. Not so much a carving as an art installation.















What was funny was the fact that it spontaneously combusted after only a few seconds lit...but that is the true definition of performance, or in this case, vegetable art. Gorgeous, strange, beautiful, but only temporary. A thing that must be witnessed fleetingly with one's own eyes before it expires.
Bravo, Jess. Well Done.




1 comment:

Q 5 Go said...

The pictures really turned out well!! I have one more that I did last night after you left and will light it tonight. Its also quite pretty and will last longer than the Brussel Tree.

Also, who knew that they grew on a stalk like that? Certainly not I!