Beautiful Junk

Building a cake

Colin and Andrew found some help to look for the cake at Laumeier Sculpture Park. They were really attracted to the giant eye and were not even afraid of it.

The artist used beautiful junk to build this cake. Beautiful junk is taking material, any type of material and recycling it to be used again for another purpose. It doesn't have to go through the recycling process like plastic bottles or metal cans. The materials can be used in their original state.

The platform is wrapped in a plastic type of netting material that you would see at a construction site.

The bottom layer has landscaping materials of small garden rocks that spells out the lettering, STL250, and astroturf is wrapped around the rest of the layer.

The next layer is a tribute to the tools an artist would use to create his sculpture. There are nuts and bolts, different length screws, electrical sockets and jacks.

On top of the top layer was covered in different size pieces of wood. Fat ones and skinny ones. These are the pieces of wood that had fallen to the floor after the cut was made.

The cake is topped of with pencil sticks, to measure twice, and part of an orange, heavy duty electrical cord for the flame.

Beautiful junk, Beautiful cake!

Cake artist - Nick Lang

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