When I was a kid, my Aunt Katherine shared my birthday, August 16. She and my Uncle Van would drive to our house and bring a huge watermelon. We would put candles in it and that would be my birthday watermelon as I blew out the candles. I never had a birthday cake as a kid, but I’m not sorry.
I love watermelons.
So, it was fascinating to run across a web site of an artist, Takashi Itoh, who carves beautiful works of art in watermelons (http://watermelon-sculpture.com/CarvingGallery.html).
This is art that has a very limited life as watermelons, like most fruits, will decay and rot after a short time.
But in that short time Mr. Itoh has created wonderful piece of art. Here are just a few of his pieces. There are many, many more on his web site.
A flower…
A horse…
A flower…
A crane and tortoise…
A flower…
A flower…
A flower…
And finally my favorite, The Pieta…
6 comments:
Oh my! Those are gorgeous!! It would be hard to cut and eat something that pretty.
My daughter's birthday is Labor Day, so one year, we made her a fruit basket using watermelons, cantaloupes, grapes, strawberries and other fruits. It was really pretty, but nothing quite like that.
Thanks for sharing.
Incredible!
Very cool!
~Lisa
Very cool indeed. Who would of thunk it?
I love the Pieta, too. Very cool~
What a gift he has! I wonder what lead him to this medium.
I love watermelons too....
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