kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”.

15 05 2008

This brings weird to a whole new level. Thai Fine Art student and artist Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker. All that baking exposure growing up has been a clear influence, but his artistic need to see things a little differently definitely flared up as he created the tacitly named “Body Bakery” – brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread.

Here’s the real kicker – they’re packaged like food and up for sale at his showroom / gallery / exhibition / bakery / torture-chamber / oddity / tourist attraction in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Check out the video below to see the packaged goods and some footage of Unarrom at work:

I’m vacillating between being incredibly impressed at his (disturbingly authentic) sculptural skills and a desire to vomit. I’ve seen some hyper-realistic sculpture before, but, at the risk of becoming completely inarticulate… these really, really, really look like heads.

Unarrom himself is almost charmingly candid about his art…

“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy.”

Inspired and informed by anatomy book and visits to forensic museums, he makes sure that none of your various body part bread desires go unfulfilled: he also makes feet, hands, and internal organs which come displayed impaled on hooks. Made from dough, raisins, cashew nuts, and chocolate, all of the works on display are totally edible. (insert cannibalism joke here). (insert “eat me” joke here). (insert “put your foot where your mouth is” joke here).

“When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread. The lesson is ‘don’t judge just by outer appearances.”

Right. That’s the lesson…


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15 05 2008
The tastiest looking severed limbs I've seen all day | MetaFilter

[...] Kittiwat Unarrom is a baker with a unique passion- sculpting delicious gourmet bread treats in the likeness of human body parts. Think bread sculpture meets BodyWorlds. If that’s not quite gruesome enough for you, you can feast [...]

16 05 2008
phil

I wonder how people would react if you smuggled one of these into their fridge, reaction would make a good youtube video

16 05 2008
weird and stuff « chicken scrawlings

[...] to something different, how about some Body bakery scarey [...]

16 05 2008
Barcelona’s Chiringuito » Archivo del weblog » Magdalenas humanas

[...] hemos quedado de piedra al ver la exposición del todavía estudiante y artista taiwanés Kittiwat Unarrom. El chaval es hijo de un pastelero [...]

16 05 2008
Include Digital Blog » Blog Archive » Hungry? I know I am!

[...] Check out the work of Kittiwat Unarrom. This Thai artist has combined 3 things all men thought impossible – Bread, art and dismembered body parts – to create a captivatingly disturbing exhibition in Ratchaburi, Thailand. [...]

16 05 2008
furiousBlog - in my diatribe » Blog Archive » my origami heart

[...] body bakery – yikes! [...]

16 05 2008
Mattysars

I too have mixed feelings about this, ranging from nausea to admiration. However the thing I’m probably most disturbed about is the effect this has on children who have viewed it (see the video). Despite the fact that I’m old enough to have certain values and know the difference between cannibalism and bread that looks incredibly like human flesh, I’m still conflicted. So my point is this – how then does a child respond to this?

16 05 2008
C-MONSTER.net. » Blog Archive » The Digest. 05.16.08.

[...] than a Damien Hirst: Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom makes dismembered body parts out of bread. Perfect for fans of Saw. (Via [...]

16 05 2008
artkid

It’s (pardon the pun) bloody brilliant I tell you! What a talented artist and creative mind! :D I definitely would love to see someone’s reaction at finding this in their cabinet or refrigerator. Bizarre, but brilliant work here.

16 05 2008
For your next party. | Random Esquire

[...] this guy provide the baked goods…that look like body parts.  Share [...]

16 05 2008
You want some butter with that bread? - Gigposters.com

[...] want some butter with that bread? kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”. shape + colour __________________ "Wringing the lies out of the scrawny neck of truth." [...]

16 05 2008
puspa,,

Phew.. *yuckh* *vomit*

16 05 2008
claysol13

thats pretty awesome! I would eat that bread all day long in public to freak people out haha.

come hang out here, and talk on our forums!

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16 05 2008
Mishka Bloglin » Blog Archive » BODY BAKERY

[...] Unarrom is an artist from Thailand who has recently turned heads with his ‘BODY BAKERY’ Exhibition, which features dismembered human anatomy in a  torture [...]

16 05 2008
rationalpsychic

Mattysars’ comment asking how a child would respond to this as artwork is an interesting one. Even though figurative, does the context give a child less grounds to react to the pieces? Is their reaction to the Pieta substantively and emotionally different, for example?

I have a five-year-old and nine-year-old girl and boy. I will NOT be exposing this to them to gauge a reaction.

16 05 2008
» New Ideas for Bread Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

[...] kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”. « shape + colour — I’ll take two feet of bread, thank you. And one head. This brings weird to a whole new level. Thai Fine Art student and artist Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker. All that baking exposure growing up has been a clear influence, but his artistic need to see things a little differently definitely flared up as he created the tacitly named “Body Bakery” – brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread. [...]

16 05 2008
amandzing

everybody is somebody elses weird…

16 05 2008
16 05 2008
Adam de Kaminski

I think this is a good statement of the absurd in eating meat.

16 05 2008
Cyn

Wow, that looks extremely realistic and awesome.
It could be a good, ecological alternative to prosthetics made out of plastic for horror films. Once you are done with your decapitation or amputation scary scene, you could all get together and have some bread with tea.
Personally, I’d buy a few pieces for shock and yummness.

16 05 2008
dirtypaws7

This is effing great!!!!
Wonderful art! Creative people rock!!!

16 05 2008
Virgilius Sade

First you get a few of these, a bunch of people with film equipment tagging along with you and shove the things in a mini fridge and try to sneak it through customs, fashioned like a gag show. Only then you post the whole thing on Youtube.

16 05 2008
Chris Grayson - GigantiCo

I’d like one for a roast beef sandwich.

Serious, though, amazing talent.

Crazy.

16 05 2008
Hauser

Made from dough, raisins, cashew nuts, and chocolate, all of the works on display are totally edible.

Of all things: it takes the quote “never judge the book from its cover” to an entirely different level. :D

17 05 2008
raincoaster

It’s like Joel-Peter Witkin, the Snack Food!

17 05 2008
Could you eat this bread - Estima Owners Club

[...] Could you eat this bread kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”. shape + colour [...]

17 05 2008
Ho-Lip Tex

Mattysars:
“So my point is this – how then does a child respond to this?”

Quite obvious how a child would react to this – by refusing to eat it until the crust is removed ;)

17 05 2008
a su salud » nichts für schwache Nerven

[...] quelle bon appetit, enjoy your meal, buen apetito [...]

17 05 2008
Head Shop Opens « raincoaster

[...] bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, where he sells these lovingly-made, home-baked loaves of bread. The ShapeAndColour blog has some video of him at work, plus more mouth-watering shots of the finished product. I [...]

19 05 2008
¿Simular miembros humanos amputados con pan es arte? | Isopixel

[...] Via: Barcelona’s Chiringuito y shape + colour [...]

19 05 2008
Body Bakery » Fist of Blog- the shiny guy always worries

[...] Via Shape and Colour [...]

20 05 2008
rat

Thai children grow up with a different understanding of this. They are confronted with the blood and guts reality of human physiology on the front page of the newspapers everyday, where photos of those killed in wrecks or gunfights with police are shown in grisly post-mortem splendor.

21 05 2008
Estrafalarius — Redefiniendo el canibalismo de forma artística, algo así

[...] kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”. | Vía: Barcelona’s Chiringuito  Sin comentarios| Compártelo! | Escrito a [...]

22 05 2008
Red Links 22/05/08 : Alexia Golez

[...] bread heads. And while, I’m over at Shape and Colour, manga [...]

22 05 2008
coooooldawg » Have a Good Timers

[...] It’s BREAD! Check out this story on the BODY BAKERY [...]

23 05 2008
candace

i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

24 05 2008
Cali’s Corner « The Intelligencer

[...] kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery” [...]

24 05 2008
Body Bakery | PolyGramma

[...] Check ook deze site [...]

28 05 2008
19thkiller

Wow, this is amazing!

28 05 2008
jack russo

i want to eat one of those pieces

29 05 2008
Body Bakery QUADCRAZY ATV Community Forum

[...] Bakery Gross!! kittiwat unarrom: body bakery. shape + colour __________________ …and other areas of [...]

30 05 2008
darkcurse

So very real………I WANT EM

1 06 2008
Kittiwat Unarrom

[...] liga [...]

4 06 2008
Wulfen

I think, I love this guy. I wish I could get that stuff here in my state. I would sit at the local park with some garlic oil and a head of bread and just have a snack.

6 06 2008
Lost In A Supermarket » Body Bakery

[...] Not sure what pings the crazy meter more, wanting to consume food that looks like hacked up body parts or having your business model aimed around attracting the people that would find a piece of bread made to look like a decapitated head wrapped up in cellophane intriguing? Outside of Halloween, I can’t really think of any special situations where this is rational? What about the kids and their pliable minds? Associating fun and tasty with human body parts doesn’t sound like the most sensible thing to do. Put a few years of chomping on the kid and things have a good chance of going south really fast.body bakery [...]

7 06 2008
TheUnsilenced

Ew…yet artistic. Look on the bright side – at least it’s not REAL flesh the kids would be desensitized into eating, as the majority are.

9 06 2008
Rectal_Enforcer

I personally love this. And YES, I would expose my children to this because throughout our days, we see just as bad on tv or while we play online games.

Personally Id love to get one of the human head ones, rip a hole on the back of the skull and use it as a giant Chili-Bowl so i can just scoop out his meaty treats while he stares off at eternity.

tripping on acid while around this shit might be a bit much tho.

anyone know where i can order some?

11 06 2008
JedMeister

TOTALLY WEIRD… BUT COOL! :)

16 06 2008
sir jorge

i’d do anything to eat these

23 06 2008
Creepy “body bakery” exists | 4080Records

[...] Read the rest of a pretty lengthy post on this guy over at Shape and Colour. [...]

13 07 2008
ossidoriduzioni » pane decapitato

[...] Sono sculture di pane e sono dannatamente daVk. [...]

17 07 2008
ossidoriduzioni » pane decapitato

[...] Sono sculture di pane e sono dannatamente daVk. Keywords: davk, pane, sculture [...]

20 07 2008
WTF

does he keep a list of customers names for law enforcement? …..in case someone decides they’d rather have the real thing? ewww i’d loose my appetite if i tried to eat these *pukes*

28 07 2008
December

Mattysars (08:10:48) : Perhaps, it’s not meant for children. Perhaps, we as adults and parents, should parent our own children, instead of the media and society. Art can be disturbing. Art can even be “age appropriate”, and still ‘hauntingly beautiful’ without losing it’s ‘message’.

Rather than worrying about “the children”, view it as an adult, and let it empower you as art should. It’s okay to feel ALL emotions from art…even negative.

Regardless, of what you feel, this IS well done art! Bravo, there is talent AND a unique perspective here!

18 08 2008
tim baines

it’s talented but you know, it’s about death. If you have a kid and are concerned about your kid viewing this art, well then you should consider that your precious may not exactly look it up on the internet on purpose? Are they going to do a search on bakery and corpse? Maybe it’ll come up on a search, but so what. They’ll probably skip right over to the ‘Faces of Death’ website like most normal teens. As for art,some of it’s good and some of it’s bad… you are still in control of deciding which. But I forgive you for now knowing what to do,
love Tim

20 08 2008
Body Bakery | Art21 Blog

[...] pictures, text, and a video (in Thai) about the Body Bakery, check out this post via Shape+Colour. NOTE: this may be scary for [...]

7 11 2008
Body Bakery | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.

[...] from Shape + Colour: “Body Bakery” – brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of [...]

7 11 2008
7 11 2008
Francisco Galarraga

awesome.. bread never looked so tasty ;) lol j/k..

10 11 2008
ITS ONLY BREAD?! « Chidi Ubani’s Blog

[...] from Shape + Colour: “Body Bakery” – brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of [...]

24 11 2008
Body Bakery at Street Anatomy

[...] To read more about the artist and see a video of these creations, click here! [...]

25 11 2008
Toby

That is incredible, fantastic stuff!

26 11 2008
Body Bakery - Bread a whole new way - Conservative Republican Discussion Forums

[...] realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread. kittiwat unarrom: “body bakery”. shape + colour __________________ "You are what you do when it counts." — John Steakley "Our [...]

28 11 2008
2 12 2008
Weihnachten für Dexter - Körperteile aus Brot | Untote im Kollektiv

[...] Körperteile kreiert. Wer mehr über die “Body Bakery” erfahren möchte, kann sich folgenden Artikel zu Gemüte führen und erfährt wie ein solches Kunstwerk hergestellt wird, wie die Form entsteht [...]

3 12 2008
Kittiwat Unarrom

[...] ” When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread. The lesson is ‘don’t judge just by outer appearances.” – Kittiwat Unarrom [...]

5 12 2008
Six Down, Twenty Six to Go « Darkness Bound

[...] Fool’s joke that’s now real. -Now for your baked pleasure… an Apple Pie and some Body Parts. Come and get it! -And now… How to Beat Your Wife. -This is pretty geeky… but this [...]

5 12 2008
lindsayatbscphoto

I have to agree, not something i would take my children to see. I can imagine the nightmares that came after that family fun day

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6 12 2008
Etienne

This is so fucking gross!!!!
I love it!

8 12 2008
9 12 2008
Thomas

Another angle on this — the similarity to medical wax moulages, see http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/12/09/from-wax-moulages-to-dough-moulages/

13 12 2008
19 12 2008
Getting Chicks With Food - Page 3 - [pushpullbar]2

[...] does bakery goods that look like human heads and body parts. Nice stuff, but not too appetizing. Body Part Bakery Attached Images [...]

23 12 2008
Busby SEO

This man is creative but insane.

12 01 2009
planoblog

insanity and creativity must be related here

30 01 2009
Body Bakery | NineCents

[...] Body Bakery Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Kabob Found this on another blog which I usually try to stay away from because of artistic integrity, but the truth is everyone is a news reporter these days. Don’t try to deny it. Shout out to www.shapeandcolour.wordpress.com for this. [...]

30 01 2009
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22 02 2009
Bread Dead | Schizodoxe

[...] Source : Shape + Colour [...]

17 03 2009
EnjoyMedia

Nice post.

28 04 2009
15 05 2009
Been a veggie for nearly a month now :) - Page 10 - Pet Forums Community

[...] So what do you think? Look tasty do they? Believe it or not these are all made from bread. kittiwat unarrom: �body bakery�. � shape+colour There are quite a few young people on this forum and those pictures might actually frighten [...]

23 05 2009
Moue Magazine » Blog Archive » Bread Head

[...] (via Shape + Colour) [...]

5 06 2009
Feed The Yogi » Edible Art

[...] Via shape + colour [...]

6 06 2009
» Pane in Thailandia

[...] [...]

9 06 2009
Yum: The Body Bakery - Ünnecessary Ümlaut

[...] pics and video. (Thanks, [...]

10 07 2009
The Chuckler » Blog Archive » The Evil Ace Of Cakes

[...] Kittiwat Unarrom is a sculptural artist from Ratchaburi, Thailand who grew up as the son of a baker. His paternally influenced / disturbingly realistic “Body Bakery” sculptural series features dismembered human body parts made entirely of dough, raisins, cashews,and chocolate. Eat your heart out…literally. [...]

13 07 2009
Mmmm. Hand Sandwich? « Redvant

[...] OK. This is either really cool or extremely sick (I think it’s cool). I’ll let you decide… Zombie Menu [...]

23 08 2009
Linkage Sunday 082309 «

[...] never think to see at a bakery. He owns “Body Bakery” which specializes in creating edible sculptures of dis-memebered human body parts all made from bread. When I first read it I wasnt sure how I felt about it, but thinking about it more made my response [...]

28 08 2009
Charles Bartlett

Oh wow this would go great for the saw exhibit at Universal Studios I wonder if we will use it?

7 09 2009
Anatomical Exegesis « shutup

[...] Anatomical Exegesis September 8, 2009 From Kittiwat Unarrom’s “body bakery.” This is made of bread. I know, right. shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/kittiwat-unarrom-body-bakery/ [...]

20 09 2009
Rosie

Most obvious question that no one asked… CAN I BUY THEM ONLINE? and what is the website where I could purchase said bread heads…???

26 09 2009
Cannibalism The Safe, Fun Way | Disinformation

[...] GO TO FULL STORY [...]

28 09 2009
Antran

Wow that’s really skilful, to make something that looks so real is an achievement in itself but to make it out of bread! That’s just next level! I’d love to buy one of his pieces but I’m sure it’d be the most expensive loaf of bread I ever buy.

12 10 2009
kym

that is amazing. where can i order one?

22 10 2009
Weird and Wacky Design: Bread and Butter « Echostains Blog

[...] nowadays it rears it’s head in the most unlikey places and with the most amazing results.  Kittiwat Unnarom is a Fine Art student who makes amazing bread sculptures (see above).  He makes body parts from [...]

2 11 2009
tyler

THIS SHIT IS SICK

i love rainbows :)

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