Artist Yukiko Morita creates incredible bread art
Yukiko Morita is a 27-year-old corporate employee from Kyoto who is quickly becoming known in her native Japan for her unusual art.
Morita uses bread to make lampshades by hollowing out a French baguette and placing LED lights inside, lighting up a room with the warm tones of a fresh loaf. Morita thoroughly dries out the baguette and applies a resin coating to the outside to prevent mould.
She calls her unique art, Pampshades, a play on the Japanese word for bread -- "pan" -- and "lamp shade".
"I think loaves are really cute," says Morita, as reported by Oddity Central. "I love their round curves. I wanted a bread display in my room so I could admire it all the time. That’s how I came up with this shape."
She was first inspired to create pampshades while working part-time at a bakery while she was a student at the Kyoto City University of Arts. While absentmindedly nibbling on the inner parts of a baguette, leaving the outer shell intact, she held it up towards the sunlight and noticed the incredible hues.
After experimenting with 300 more prototypes, she eventually nailed the perfect pampshade.
Morita's hobby has quickly turned into a side business, as Kyoto shop owners who noticed her pampshades at crafts fairs started selling them for $35 to $50.
"I hope to keep on doing this and keep on having fun." she says. -- by Shereen Dindar
