In this cold and dangerous world, facing your fears is one thing … but licking them to smithereens while their fruity death juices dribble down your chin is another. That's exactly what artist Wei Li envisons you doing in her devilishly delicious series, "Dangerous Popsicles, which has viewers contemplating the taste of HIV and the feel of licking a horribly sharp cactus. Halloween-y to the max.
In this cold and dangerous world, facing your fears is one thing … but licking them to smithereens while their fruity death juices dribble down your chin is another. That's exactly what artist Wei Li envisons you doing in her devilishly delicious series, "Dangerous Popsicles, which has viewers contemplating the taste of HIV and the feel of licking a horribly sharp cactus. Halloween-y to the max.
As if popsicle weren't already dangerous enough. There is no stomach ache like the stomach ache vested from eating 24 Otter Pops in the span of an hour. Thanks, underfunded summer camp meal program in 1997.
Anyway … Building off the idea that mortal fears can be combated through the consumption of tasty treats, Wei devised a series of popsicles that challenge the notion of human threats.
Included in this concept is the idea of user un-friendliness and uselessness, two things that are the opposite of what most designers and chefs strive for in their craft … and that popsicle scientists have overcome with timeless inventions like the ChocoTaco.
Here are the blueprints for her icy art meals:
For her first series, Wei created a line of cacti popsicles, inviting viewers to imagine dragging one of the most sensitive organs in their bodies across their razor-sharp surfaces.
Bon apetit, fuckers.
For her next trick, Wei Li made a second collection of popsicles inspired by life-threatening viruses. Gross.
What does HIV popsicle taste like? Would you even slap that tongue of yours on it in the first place?
By fusing repulsion and delight, Wei Li’s work emphasizes that the tongue isn't the only organ capable of taste; your brain is pretty good at it too. And speaking of … our brains are imagining that HIV tastes like fruit punch while MRSA has a kind of blue raspberry thing going on.
Obviously, the popsicles are a harmless combination of water and sugar, but the idea of consuming deadly viruses and barbed cacti spark a sensory reaction, even before the first taste.
Look! A video about it!
Wow, okay. We know what we're serving at our company Halloween party. Now if she could only make a popsicle the incredibly terrifying wrath of our boss when he finds out who brought them …
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