Baker: Well don’t blame me…they started off as de Koonings. You were the one who insisted on the change
O: Well Richter is hot. A market leader
B: Sure, but smudgy cakes?
O: Yeah. Maybe we shoulda used one of those ones with all the little squares of colour
B: So where to from here? I'm liking Blinky Palermo
O: Enough with the Germans
B: German?....Blinky?
O: No. What we need is a smack-down combo, like an artist and an anniversary
B: Hey that's a great idea! How about the 39th anniversary of Joseph Beuys performing How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare?
O: Yes, like that but not a sculptor, not a German and without the hare
B: OK
O: Michelangelo. He’s having an anniversary. Perfect
B: A David cake? You want me to do extreme nude cakery?
O: No, no, I’m talking Michelangelo the painter and I know just the work for our next cake: the Sistine chapel ceiling.
B: I can’t make a cake of a painting that’s on a ceiling
But she did.
Image: Michelle Wibowo used over 10,000 marshmallows and more sprinkles than you'd see in a lifetime creating her one on one scale version of Michelangelo's 450 year old painting. More here
