Video: Paintings and sculptures from chewed gum. Peculiar GumArt by Jamie Marraccini
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Medical Academy sophomore Jamie Marraccini in the future he saw himself as either a therapist or a family doctor. But the love of chewing gum, from which he was not to be pulled by the ears from childhood, made adjustments to the young man's career plans. And now the 38-year-old frustrated doctor is known for his unusual work called GumArt, namely, its amazing sculptures and paintings of chewed chewing gum. Which he, by the way, loves to this day. For nearly 38 years, Jamie, according to his own calculations, chewed more than 50 thousand gum and inflated countless large and small bubbles. He can rightfully be called the largest expert in chewing gum, because you can only imagine how many colors, tastes and varieties of chewing gum have been in his mouth during all this time!
However, unlike the "amateurs", the professional Marrakchini sculpted the used lumps not on tables and chairs, but on special boards, on which later his unusual "canvases" were born. By the way, besides Jamie Marracchini, there are still many artists who work with chewing gum, but for some reason he is considered the founder of such a genre as GumArt.
Despite the seeming simplicity, chewing gum, even chewed, is a very tricky material, and in order to work with it, you need to get the hang of it and gain experience. So, some types of gum stick and stretch worse than others. Others should first be kept in the refrigerator for a while, or even let it “age” for two or three weeks, so that it acquires the desired color, viscosity, hardness, or, conversely, fragility. Not to mention the fact that at first all this "good" must be thoroughly chewed.
You can view these and other works by Jamie Marracchini in his online creative workshop GumArt.
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