Video: A panorama of London from sugar. Chris Naylor
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chris Naylor's Sugar Art - a real gift for all those with a sweet tooth. A talented Englishman created a magnificent snow-white skyline of London, using as a "building" material 2186 refined sugar cubes. The work is timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the London Docklands Museum.
You may be surprised, but Chris Naylor is not a pioneer in the art of sugar. On the site Culturology. We have already talked about the picture that the artist Joel Brochu laid out of sugar topping for cupcakes, as well as about sugar graffiti that Shelley Miller decorated the streets of Montreal with.
It is no coincidence that the idea to create a London panorama from refined cubes came to Chris Naylor: the building that houses the London Docklands Museum is already 210 years old. It was built by merchants who traded sugar, and today it is one of two that survived the massive fires of 1940. Ten years ago, a museum was opened in this building (after restoration).
The talented artist finished work on the panorama quickly: it took him three days to lay out from the cubes the image of St. Paul's Cathedral, the London Ferris wheel and Tower Bridge. Chris Naylor admits that the work was not easy: sugar is a very fragile material that crumbles a lot, so it took a lot of time and money to make the necessary forms. The master jokes that it was only on the first working day before lunch that he managed to spend his weekly supply of sugar on drawing. By the way, Chris Naylor surprises the public with interesting art projects not for the first time. Earlier we wrote about how he skillfully carved a portrait of Mona Lisa on ordinary lawn grass!
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