Bompas & Parr aren’t the only artists to use molded gelatin as their medium of choice. San Francisco artist Liz Hickok has been working in Jell-O for years, crafting scenarios like this depiction of the Marina District in commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The installation is set upon a shake table for quaky verisimilitude and shrouded, of course, by a mass of San Francisco fog.
“Once I began building my own model cities out of Jell-O,” the artist writes in her statement, “I found that the jiggly, iconic childhood dessert is not only perishable, but also uncontrollable. Each time I take a picture of one of my cityscapes any building may begin to sweat or even liquefy, taking on a new persona.”
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