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Japanese artist Gaku (@gaku_carving) has been impressing many lately with their beautiful works made using the craft of Thai fruit carving. Gaku usually takes their knife to fruit to create fascinating and ornate carvings, but recently wowed many with an epic sculpture of a falcon made out of broccoli.
Gaku has once again turned to broccoli as their palette, this time carving a green masterpiece that looks like it leaped right out of the ocean.
According to Gaku, this intricately carved fish sculpture took three hours to make. A key point was fine-shaping the typically fuzzy and bristly nature of broccoli buds into something smoother, particularly around the tail. The intact portion doubles as both an epic and imposing tail and also a visual effect of the fish creating a huge splash of water as it springs from the sea.
For more amazing fruit and vegetable carvings, be sure to follow Gaku on Twitter.
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Sven Asai
Nanjakorewa… when I stupidly played with food in my childhood I got scolded or beaten. lol
cleo
I'm split on this.
It does look quite amazing and shows incredible talent and skill. Very artistic.
But.
It's a stalk of broccoli. Leaving aside the don't play with yer food problem, left as it is it's going wither and decompose in a matter of weeks if not days. Or it's going to get eaten and have no more nutritional value or flavour than an uncarved bit of broccoli that someone didn't spend three hours of their life on.
As a piece of art, it isn't going to survive and won't appreciate in value over the years.
So what's the point?
If Gaku enjoys the act of carving as a pastime, fine - surely it's no different from folk who spend hours twiddling levers on a game console, or writing comments on articles on the Internet. Certainly more creative.
Take a photo of it (already done, obviously), boil or steam it lightly and put it in your next salad to wow your guests or for your own self-satisfaction.
All things considered, yeah, it's cool, so long as it gets eaten in the end.
And don't forget the bits that got carved off.
Iron Lad
Holy awesome!
lucabrasi
Seems like the word “epic” has lost some of its force….