Eat Like Hannibal Lecter
The Bread Sculptures of Kittiwat Unarrom

Kittiwat Unarrom is a Thai baker and artist, and a son of bakers, who uses his culinary skills to create some of the most disturbing and realistic corpse sculpture I have ever seen. Food art is no stranger to Thai culture – they pioneered fruit sculpture – and neither is death; the Thai have a close relationship with death and spirits, living alongside them and acknowledging their presence and power. So Unarrom’s sculpture makes perfect sense in the context of his culture, but also in the context of American food culture. Unarrom looks at his artwork as a way of communicating with people, asking them “whether they are consuming food, or food is consuming them” (source). If you look at the state of food in the US, the food eaten by a majority of Americans is certainly hastening our progress towards looking like one of Unarrom’s sculptures. His pieces are all edible, made of sweet and savory breads and sold at his Body Bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, although I don’t know if I could bite into a dead bald man’s face. Even Hannibal liked his flesh fresh. The textures and colors he achieves on the skin are breathtakingly real – mouldering skin, blotched with decay and sticky with oozed bodily fluids. Check out the photos of his work below. Those feet…THOSE FEET!!!