Using everyday items collected from around the house and garden, artist Vanessa Mckeown styles ordinary materials into playful ‘edible’ items. her series of ‘fruloons & vegaloons’ include a bundle of cherry tomatoes, a batch of grapes, an eggplant, coconut, banana and pineapple humorously reconsidered as a balloon-based species.
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- grapaloon
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- auberloon
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- coconutaloon
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- pineappleloon
Artificial materials meet actual vegetation, forming surreal, physical collages of the two distinctly different mediums. examples include the simply inflated pink-toned plastic orbs carefully tethered to a real tomato vine, a blown-up yellow tube tucked in between the peel of a banana, and tiny purple spheres gingerly attached to a grape branch.
Author: Nina Azzarello
Source: designboom.com
Images & Artist: Vanessa Mckeown