yaya chou: gummi bear bear.

How awesome is this? It’s a big gummi bear…made out of little gummi bears! I love stuff made out of the stuff that it already is.

Bi-coastal artist and animator YaYa Chou lives in both Los Angeles and Taiwan.  The gummi bear sculpture “Simon” debuted in 2006. I’m particularly impressed that, instead of making a living gummi bear out of gummi bears, she made a bear skin rug out of gummi bears. Yaya is really dedicated to this whole candy thing, as evidenced by her gummi bear chandelier: