Video: All for nuts. Peanut Heroes by Steve Casino
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What are you thinking when you look at peanuts? About how delicious it is! But an American artist Steve Casinoseeing peanut bean, imagines some famous world pop culture character … As proof of this, there is a series of miniature sculptures that this author created from such an unusual material.
Just a couple of days ago, we talked about the miniature man Mr. Chickpea and his friends, created by photographer Sadi Tekin from peas. Today these fictional characters have peanut "brothers".
Steve Casino has long noticed that the peanut bean in shell, with a certain fantasy, is very similar in shape to the contours of the human body. It is precisely this guess that the author decided to embody in a series of unusual peanut sculptures.
In it, Casino created miniature copies of famous characters in American and English pop culture, both real and fictional. Celebrities portrayed by the artist using peanut beans include musician and public figure Bono from the group U2, Johnny Rotten and Syd Vicious from the Sex Pistols, country artist Johnny Cash, movie heroes Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, Frankenstein's monsters and Dracula, the avant-garde artist Andy Warhol, and many, many others.
However, not every peanut bean is suitable for creating such a sculpture. The selection of material is a long, painstaking work that Steve Casino is engaged in. To begin with, he studies the features of the anatomical structure of a famous character, and then spends hours in search of peanuts of a suitable shape.
The ensuing work of humanizing the peanuts takes Steve Casino about ten hours. So these works are not as simple as they might seem at the first glance at them.
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