I scream for ice-cream: is this the most nauseating food art ever?

Michael Massaia believes his melted puddles of multicoloured ice-cream are abstract art – but they just make me sick. All that’s missing is a hot pavement and some flies

My boy lollipop: Michael Massaia’s ice-cream art – in pictures

Art and food have an ancient and mysterious relationship. Artists have been depicting what they eat since the Ice Age – the bison and mammoths in cave paintings were food for paleolithic hunters.

Yet there’s more going on here than meets the eye – literally. When we look at images of food, more than one sense is involved. The tastebuds kick in, the tummy reacts. Art can perform a bizarre mental trick by depicting food; it can operate on the part of the brain that perceives flavours.

Continue reading...