An Artist Dumped Honey On People and Took Pictures...And Surprisingly It Doesn't Suck

Slate - Blake Little was photographing a “bear” when he decided to try out a few tongue-in-cheek ideas—so he introduced some honey. Inspired by the experience, the following week, Little invited a friend to come by his studio to take some portraits with honey covering his head and beard and eventually his body.  “I realized that everyone has to be encased in it and that’s what made the most powerful image,” Little said about his series “Preservation.” From there he began advertising for models, finding people on Craigslist as well as through agencies that represented professional dancers and models, and started shooting in a larger studio working on the series from 2012 until around the middle of 2014. Although there is a fascination with the process of how the images were made, Little said that the idea is really a celebration of the human form, something that took on a universal quality when the honey—he used 1,000 pounds of it a week during shooting—was added. Since it’s release, the work has gone viral, something Little said has been “a little surprising and a little overwhelming.”

h/t Alex

I hate art. If I knew how the new website worked I would link back to a dozen blogs I’ve written about bullshit art and artists who do nothing creative and call it art. Like the woman who drank milk and then puked it back up onto a canvas and sold those paintings, she should be tar and feathered. But surprisingly I don’t hate this art right here. I was ready to hate it, ready to say you can’t just dump food on someone’s head and call it art, but I don’t know…I don’t know if it’s because I’m feeling good today because someone called me fat for the first time ever in my life, or because the pictures actually are pretty dope, but I like them. Maybe this is growing up? I’m starting to see art in ways I never saw before? I took an art history class one time and I’m not joking it was the biggest load of bullshit of all time. You know how math after 3rd grade is all bullshit? Like how you’ll literally never use anything you learned in calc? Art history was the same way. You can only look at paintings from the 1600s of naked fat people so many times before you have to tell the teacher there is literally nothing to be learned from them. It’s fat naked people. That’s it. So as much as art is fucking stupid, I think these pictures are pretty cool. A little bit confused by the pic of the dog covered in honey though. How the fuck did they get that out of it’s fur? I’m perplexed. I’m sure some people think it’s bad for the dog, but dogs love human food, that’s like puppy heaven right there.