Video: Banana sculptures by Suu. When a banana isn't just a banana
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would seem, what can you do with a banana? Well, maybe eat it! Or feed them a monkey at the zoo. But for a Japanese artist known by the creative pen name Suu, bananas perform exactly the same functions that large pieces of marble perform for other sculptors. Suu carves out of them sculptures!
To be honest, bananas have not often attracted the attention of artists of all stripes. Even on our website not so many materials were devoted to them. You can only recall the smashed banana from Brock Davis and banana ships from Jacob Dahlstrup.
But the Japanese artist Suu completely rehabilitates this fruit with his work (scientists decided to consider banana fruits as a fruit, not a vegetable, despite the fact that the banana plant itself is a herb) in the face of the world art community. Suu creates amazing sculptures from bananas under the collective name "Banana Carvings".
Moreover, he, like sculptors from the past, precisely cuts out the forms he needs from the available material. We can say that this is an almost forgotten artistic method among contemporary artists.
Suu's best faces are made from bananas. Moreover, these faces can belong to both people and various mythological creatures, for example, dragons, demons and even the world famous gloomy monster Cthulhu.
Unfortunately, such sculptures do not last long - only a couple of days at most, and after that, at the first signs of darkening of the material, they are immediately eaten. So you can only admire these banana creations from Suu in photographs.
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