Giant sculpture of woman made from peaches

"Ella" is a 12-meter-long sculpture made from peaches, as part of a promotional campaign for an Australian skin care product company. The site has a video about its design and construction. Link

• [Jamie Sue]

  Antinous:
  I agree. More peaches are wasted on the floors of caneries and in the fields than are in that sculpture… at least it is partly biodegradable.

• [mr_josh]

  So three tons of non-biodegradable, neon colored, fur covered, plastic balls are better than three tons of compostable peaches?

  Well, you can put those back in cans and use them later, for making wannabe art installations for other companies.

• [Jinglefritz]

  “It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls.”

  Of course if you were promoting a skin care product for women that let’s just say smelled like Oh I dunno, peaches?…

  “Ella Bache – Smells like Balls!” – Not really the message they were looking to send, I guess.

• [arkizzle]

  #15 “Smells like Balls”

  quality.

• [BWJones]

  Ain’t that a peach? ;-)

• [Jai]

  Holy peaches, Batman!

• [sonny p fontaine]

  peach bottom

• [mr_josh]

  Really love your peaches, wanna’ shake your tree?

  But seriously, art for corporations’ sake seems even worse when it’s a waste of perfectly good food.

• [RyanH]

  I don’t know. I kind of have to applaud anyone, corporate or not, who sits down at a meeting and says “you know what would be a really keen idea? Let’s make a giant woman out of peaches”.

• [Hans]

  I, for one, welcome our new peach overlords.

• [arkizzle]

  hmm, i saw the picture and immediately imagined a sculptor commissioned to actually build this thing, peach by peach, with some rebar and chicken-wire. “interesting to see the making of” i thought.

  then on the website they describe it as a “Major Artistic Endeavour”, so it sounded promising.

  i was kind of disappointed when i watched it and saw they 3d-modelled the woman and sent the mesh to a foam-fab and just stuck a ton of peaches to the resulting structure..

  so its not really “made” of peaches, is it?

  meh, maybe i expect too much.

• [StyleSwag]

  This is one of those strangely repulsive yet I can’t look away moments. I also agree with Mr. Josh about wasting food. It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls.

• [tallpat]

  “Skin good enough to eat”? What are they promoting cannibalism?

• [Antinous]

  I also agree with Mr. Josh about wasting food. It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls.

  So three tons of non-biodegradable, neon colored, fur covered, plastic balls are better than three tons of compostable peaches?

• [dagfooyo]

  I hope they preserved the peaches somehow — otherwise this is going to be the world’s most disgusting sculpture in about a week.

• [Vitor Freitas]

  …[Via]…

  http://vitorfreitas.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/mulher-de-pessego/

• [Anonymous]

  Reminds me of the the movie “Altered States” when john hurt goes through the the ceremony and sees his wife turn to dust before him, to close in my book

  Laurence

• [BSUWG]

  Ironically, that picture makes me feel all soft, warm, & fuzzy.

• [temp]

  oddly reminiscent of this adicolor thing from a year ago: “pink“