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Even at Hallowe’en you would hardly expect to walk into the local bread shop to find a gruesome selection of bloody and dismembered body parts on the counter, and eating them would hardly be top of your list,  but a Bangkok Bakery customers were amazed at just how tasty they are.

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Visitors to the Unarrom family bakery factory shop, in Ratchaburi, Bangkok, found incredible works of edible art, in the spooky spirit of the time of year, all created by artistic apple of his father’s eye, 32 years old Kittiwat Unarrom.

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This highly creative young man actually regards his weird artworks just another type of foodstuff, using bread dough as a sculptural medium, in experimental fashion at first. Very soon he was forging reputation and good name for producing his eerie sculptures, moulded as all manner of bloody body parts.

Kittiwat studied  fine arts, and is in fact quite an accomplished painter and sculptor, though it was returning to his family business that really sparked him into action with his wacky creations. Having learned, by the age of 10 the art of baking, he felt that he could best express his feelings and beliefs through that.

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Because finished products have short shelf lives,  they take on an air of being even more evocative in showing clearly how transient life truly is, Kittiwat commenting that he feels, since his art is just bread at heart, the ephemeral nature is amplified by the act of eating it. 

Just how realistic these bread products are is quite disturbing, looking for all the world like cuts of meat from a butchery, dismembered human body, parts still oozing blood and packaged like the fresh food on any supermarket shelf.

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He achieves this haunting level of realism through spending hours in anatomy studies and forensic museum visits, all the time striving for tastier products cum artworks.

His original edible sculpture work series was, he felt somewhat bland, and since he wanted them to appeal for taste on top of artistic merit, he needed to work hard to improve both taste and visual sensations. It was in 2008 that he baked fresh bread heads for immediate consumption by onlookers at his exhibition  dubbed Body and the Dead.

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In May 2010, Kittiwat exhibited at Bangkok’s Siam Theatre, along with another artist, sculptures and paintings at a show called Art Now, though Kittiwat himself feels that art should  not exist only in museums or galleries, but should be for everyone at all times.

Family business is taking priority just now, but this ghoulish baker is still full of artistic ideas, the two separate elements of his life quite complimentary, though the next set of artworks he produces will go in a totally different direction, remaining edible art yet again. I for one look forward to it with relish, though he may be hard pressed to top this Hallowe’en Special.

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