Lebanese artist Ginou Choueiri believes that everything can be transformed into art. In fact, she explains, “There is enough unused and abandoned material out there screaming for attention, as conventional everyday objects that would love to be pulled out of their mundane environment for a more exciting existence.”
Her Potato Portraits are an example of an artist playing with her food and ending up with compelling works of art. Choueiri painstakingly paints portraits of humans, well known and unknown, on potatoes. She has completed more than a one thousand Potato Portraits and her potato art has been shown in various galleries around the world.
“I choose the potato to portray the human face due to the many striking parallels,” she explains. “Not only is their skin porous like ours but they also come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Potato heads grow, sprout, age, then decay... but they refuse to go without a trace.”
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