Hikaru Cho plays with humor, disguise, and perceptions_things are not what they seem. He takes common foods and paints them to look like other foods. Eg this banana is turned into a near photo-realistic cucumber [a tomato becomes a tangerine, an egg is made into a eggplant.] She has also used the same skills with a paintbrush to alter human faces and body parts.
The food paintings are great, but I can really appreciate the body paintings more.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f5fc78f3bc399659982f4d7024c122d/tumblr_mr2cnvcQLh1ro51udo2_1280.jpg
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This one is pretty fantastic. It's fun, almost surreal, and adds an extra dimension. Way cheaper than becoming a drag queen and getting plastic surgery too.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/b4a02131e11b66114d629a63c9ab9b8e/tumblr_mwpx74zA3E1ro51udo1_r1_1280.jpg
This image is really great as well. Normally when we see 3D tattoos, it's of objects protruding outward. Instead in this one, we get a look of the 3D world inside the body, which strangely enough you never see around anywhere, except for maybe if the tattoo were of a cut or bruise.
Regards, all her work definitely requires a double take. And as artists, that's exactly what we strive for, right?
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sofia mustelin
3/16/2014 07:01:28 pm
This is really interesting to me. Taking something ordinary and transforming it into something else. There is just something about playing mind tricks and fooling an audience that is so interesting and witty. Also altering the appearance of objects that we are so use to seeing in everyday life on a day to day basis, that we often overlook or take for granted, make us perhaps see them in a new way and experience them In a new wa.
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