Video: Peel slowly and see: Banana art by Honey
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The artist known by her pseudonym Honey, a ripe banana and a safety pin are enough to create an art object. Honey specializes in scraping out portraits of pop stars and movie characters on bananas, which he then photographs and immediately eats.
Honey lives in the Philippines and, in addition to his own creativity, maintains an interesting blog about contemporary art called Sweet Station. She also has a personal website, where, in addition to the banana cycle, you can see soap sculptures and ink portraits of modern pop culture icons, from Gollum to Pi Diddy, made in the classical technique.
Honey's approach to painting on bananas is reminiscent of the post-impressionist technique of pointillism. Initially, Honey tried to draw on the delicious fruit with a regular pen, but the ink creeped out - so they had to start painting them using the "tattoo" method. The concept may seem almost comic, but the artist produces quite realistic portraits, worked out to the smallest detail.
Perhaps one day a novice art critic will write a dissertation on a strange topic, "The history of the use of bananas in contemporary art." He could also remember the legendary drawing Andy Warhol for the cover of the first album of The Velvet Underground, and, for example, a Japanese artist Suu - the creator of strange sculptures of peeled fruits. Like Warhol, Filipino artist Honey takes a close look at popular culture, with musicians like Jim Morrison and movie characters like the Blues Brothers. On her website, however, she claims that she is no less inspired by "life as such, human nature and communication."
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