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Another edible city? Artist creates model city with chewing gum

Another edible city? Artist creates model city with chewing gum

French artist Jeremy Laffon pieced together a model city with thousands of sticks of mint-green chewing gum.


By BD+C Staff | May 3, 2013

What's with artists these days? First bread, now chewing gum?

Architizer last week featured a miniature cityscape constructed entirely of bread. Now the popular design blog is highlighting the work of yet another artist who used food as the sole material for building a model city.

Jeremy Laffon pieced together this exhibit with thousands of sticks of mint-green chewing gum. The trick, according to Architizer, is welding the gum sticks together using a small light. Learn more at Architizer.

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