Video: Jelly Towns Liz Haycock
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Some say San Francisco is a sweet sweet city. Others think it is a pretty colorful place. There are even people who claim that this city must be eaten immediately. When you see Liz Hickok's jelly models of San Francisco, what do you think?
The technique of making sweet colored cities is simple and does not differ much from what housewives do in their kitchens. Liz Haycock takes colorful jelly, pours it into special molds and waits for it to solidify, and then lays out cityscapes from the resulting buildings. To create the desired effect, the author also adds a painted background and elements such as trees or mountains to the installations. The finished works are illuminated from below or from the back: the light passing through the translucent jelly gives Liz's creations a festive and even slightly magical look.
Often, Liz Haycock's cityscapes exist exclusively in her studio, but sometimes the author creates installations in public places where they are available to the public for viewing. And if in the photographs and videos of Liz's studio work we see fantastic scenes, then when directly studying the installations, the viewer relies more on his own feelings: smell, touch, desire to feel the taste of jelly houses. But the lucky ones who saw Liz Haycock's work live are few: jelly installations are very short-lived and quickly melt, leaving behind photographs and videos as the only proof of their existence.
The author says that at first her glowing cities enchant and seduce the viewer with their beauty, but after that comes the realization that the short-lived jelly installations symbolize the fleeting and temporary nature of everything that is created by man. In addition to San Francisco, Liz Haycock also created jelly models for the White House (Washington) and the cities of Wilmington, Scottsdale and North Adams.
Liz Haycock lives in San Francisco and works in photography, sculpture and installation. Thanks to her jelly cities, she was awarded the Food Network Awards Show for “Best Use of Food as Creative Material”.
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