Arts and Cultural Response - Post 2

First off, just to get this straight as a hobby he creates tiny little figurines and surgically implants them into Cadbury Crème eggs? That is an interesting hobby to find fun. I have been reading the small captions underneath the pictures and the story he has created that goes along with the pictures. First he shows a normal Cadbury Crème egg on a small podium. Then the egg is cut in half to reveal a crème-covered, not quite yet recognizable bird fetus figurine. Every once in a while, under a picture, he adds a caption to explain the process. He says that if the eggs are incubated correctly they develop into fetuses. This is a joke right? This page has me convinced that if I incubated these eggs little bird fetuses would appear in my Easter treat. I actually find it very interesting as to how this idea popped into the artist’s head. He doesn’t only use this as an opportunity to make art; he gives the entire piece a background. The captions briefly explain this (hopefully) made-up process behind incubating the eggs. He goes to say “Fertilized eggs were incubated very carefully. The process requires finesse: too cold, and the embryo doesn’t develop; too hot, and the chocolate melts.” I am gullible and m considering trying out this process. When I was first looking at the pictures I was intrigued and didn’t find them to be that creepy. I thought the little figurines were cool. It is the idea that he made an entire story around it that creeps me out a little bit just because I am tempted to try incubating these eggs myself to see if little birds pop up. I quite enjoy Cadbury Crème eggs but I don’t like blood and the only thing that grossed me out was when he said “there’s the occasional blood spot on the yolk,” so I may be holding out on these Cadbury eggs for a little while. I thought the detail on the tiny “fetuses” was really unique. I googled real bird fetuses and found that they looked very similar to the pink bird fetus that was put into the Cadbury egg. I wonder what the inspiration was behind this art process. If I had to guess I would say that the birds were carved from wood and obviously the eggs were straight from any corner or grocery store. After l scrolled through the Cadbury egg collection I went to the other link to see the artist’s pottery work. I also found this work though-provoking. I am not an artist so I often wonder where artists find the inspiration for their work. How do they come up with these out of the ordinary works of art? Some of the face pottery I actually found pretty scary -more disturbing to me than anything found in a Cadbury Crème egg. Is every artist that creates work like this slightly disturbed? Or are they geniuses to think so far outside the realm of what everyone else thinks. I am intrigued by art like this because I know that I would never be able to reach so far out of my imagination to create things that are like nothing I have seen before. I know that if I for some reason developed the urge to make pottery jugs, my first instinct would not be to put faces on them. However, I do not think I would go as far to purchase one of these jugs to display in my dorm room. They would haunt me. But, I do appreciate the thought and process that goes into these unique pieces.