Thai artist creates gruesome body parts in bread

Coolhunting has a creepy post up about an artist in Thailand, Kittiwat Unarrom, who uses dough to icky, edible facsimiles of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. He comes from a family of breadbakers, and has been doing this grossout art since 2005 (or perhaps earlier, I'm seeing conflicting reports). Coolhunting snip:

The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like.

Kittiwat Unarrom: Bread Body Parts (coolhunting, thanks Susannah Breslin)
Previously on BB: Baker/artist makes putrefying organs and remains out of bread

• [Pipenta]

  Without the bloody glaze and the butcher shop presentation (the shrinkwrap styrofoam trays, the honkin’ great metal hooks) these would not look so gruesome. They are, in fact, quite beautiful.

  I wondered about how they retained their shape and I think they aren’t a very yeasty springy dough. I think they are sculpture first and food second.

  I wonder about the customers and why they are buying them. For the gross out? For some other reason.

  Pretty nifty work, all in all.

• [rosellastreett]

  retired cereal killer becomes the bread killer. why?

• [halfvenus]

  I will not make a religious joke.

• [palindromic]

  Ewwwwwww, I mean really, ewww.. why would anyone want those.. things.. let alone eat them? I really wish there was subtitles so we could understand just what exactly the purpose of all this is. If that would even help.

• [mdhatter]

  Does he make little round crackers too?

  (Sorry #1, but I will)

• [catcubed]

  Pretty amazing work!

  Reminds me of a Halloween costume I did a years ago with a stuffed monkey shoved into a meat grinder. Instead of actual meat coming out the other end, I just ground normal bread and fake blood. As it exits the meat grinder, it ends up looking exactly like ground beef — even in good lighting! Thus, I was able to eat it and gross people out.

• [help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread]

  I wonder how the bread’s features retain their definition as the dough rises.

• [Takuan]

  Look at all my trials and tribulations
  Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
  Don’t disturb me now I can see the answers
  Till this evening is this morning life is fine

  Always hoped that I’d be an apostle
  Knew that I would make it if I tried
  Then when we retire we can write the gospels
  So they’ll still talk about us when we’ve died

  The end . . .
  Is just a little harder when brought about by friends
  For all you care this wine could be my blood
  For all you care this bread could be my body
  The end!
  This is my blood you drink
  This is my body you eat
  If you would remember me when you eat and drink . . .

• [skrewedup123]

  Can you have your bread and eat it, too?

• [MarkM]

  @1,@2:
  That would be a serious communion wafer (or loaf)!
  When you get the body of Christ,
  boy, do you get the body of Christ!

• [IWood]

  I found a footloaf on the beach last weekend.

• [cathe]

  This is the coolest thing I have EVER seen on the internet.

• [jesushootscores]

  that’s handy

• [Little John]

  IWood: Right or left? In a sneaker?

• [chumprock]

  Make wrote about this two years ago.

  http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/10/artist_bakes_ed.html

  And they’re starlings… o.O

• [Anonymous]

  Palindromic :

  This is pretty tame, by Thai standards. Thailand, being a Buddhist country, is fairly comfortable with death and gore as mere corpereal things; there are newspapers in Thailand which feature only photographs of the days’ gruesome deaths in car accidents and the like, and many Buddhist monks “Study” pictures of corpses to remind them that the body is just a temporary vessel, and decays.

  As a Westerner, I will admit this bread is really hideous and gruesome. But it’s _SO_ Thai to do this kind of thing. The “haunted house” in Thai themeparks contain models that would make little white kids shit their pants.