Edible and Non-Edible Art #3 and 4

A continuation of the food-related art series.

#3 Julie Lee

Julie Lee is an LA-based artist and photographer who freely confesses that she's a food-playing nerd. She visits farmers' markets, gardens and even forages in wilder places for inspiration for her collages which she then photographs and adds to the stock in her shop. 

Strawberry Fields

Patty Pan Squash

Summer Love

Here are Julie's links:

• Website
• Instagram
• Shop

Next up:

#4 Takayo Kiyota 

Takayo Kiyota is a Tokyo-based illustrator and makizushi artist who creates maki rolls, that in cross-section, reveal images that wow.

Kiyota, who goes by the name Tama-chan, lays out the ingredients with precision onto the rice, imagining what it will look like when rolled and sliced. She says distortions happen easily when things get moved or squished a certain way in the rolling or slicing. 

The rolls are quite large, not like the maki we get at our local sushi bar. 

This next one she created for an article on the globalization of Japanese food.

Tama-chan has even created a roll of a fetus in utero where each slice revealed a different stage in its development. 

Tama-chan gives workshops and has written a book in English in case you want to check it out.

Here's a short video about Takayo Kiyota's art.