Kapala With the Cake Eyes - SS 10-10-2016 - The Sugar Spooks have returned! This is a "Kapala", a Sanskirt term meaning skull and/or bowl, and is a decorative human skull used as a ritual implement in both Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. They were often carved with decorative designs, precious metals, and jewels. In Tibetan monasteries, the kapala was used to hold dough cakes or wine, used symbolically as flesh and blood offerings to wrathful deities of Hindu India and Buddhist Tibet. The dough cakes were not just pieces of bread, but were shaped to resemble human eyes, ears and tongues. This is what made this SO appropriate for Sugar Spooks! The curved knife serves as the "method" weapon that severs the life and vital organs of demonic enemies and the skull cup is the "wisdom" vessel in which the blood and organs are collected as the deity's life source. Spiritual, Creepy, Beautiful AND Edible! Be sure to haunt the entire collab - and sleep tight...if you can..... www.sugarspooks.com
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Work In Progress
Just a few shots of this process. This may seem like a simple sculpture, but there was a lot of thought and some pretty heavy structure involved. The body of the cake here was foil, but could have easily been cake. The plan WAS for it to be cake, and for me to EAT it, in grisly fashion, but that plan got changed suddenly due to unforseen circumstance. Maybe I will revisit this design...
No blood here, this is all food coloring gel paste - Red plus a tiny bit of purple
Just a few shots of this process. This may seem like a simple sculpture, but there was a lot of thought and some pretty heavy structure involved. The body of the cake here was foil, but could have easily been cake. The plan WAS for it to be cake, and for me to EAT it, in grisly fashion, but that plan got changed suddenly due to unforseen circumstance. Maybe I will revisit this design...
No blood here, this is all food coloring gel paste - Red plus a tiny bit of purple