PrintPhoto of the Day: Henry Darger Cake
When I first saw donut's photo of a cake with a girl's face in Japan, I thought it looked rather cute. And then I read the story behind the cake:
Possibly the creepiest thing I ate in Japan.
I had this at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art's very elegant cafe. And I gather that this cafe has a tradition of representing the museum's current exhibition in dessert form. Well, the exhibit on right now is Henry Darger, who is best known for his vastly creepy collages of little girls being tortured. And let me say, it was six kinds of weird to eat one of Darger's little lovelies in cake form.
...And now I think it's a little less cute.
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4 Comments:
j at 6:01PM on 06/28/07
hmm, i guess the *heart* emoticon doesn't show up on SE. anyways, i love this photo. i love darger's illustrations, they are incredible.
j at 6:07PM on 06/28/07
I never thought I'd live to see the day when creepy folk art meets the world of pastry. Thank god they chose to do the girls' faces, a lot of Darger's girls were, ahem, equipped, with other pieces, of, ahem, equipment. Creepy dude, creepy cake.
theheadhen at 6:24PM on 06/28/07
That seems like a very Japanese thing to do...
Christina at 2:46AM on 06/29/07