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July 17, 2008
You can't stop progress
I said it before, and I'll say it again: science fascinates me. You have some scientists who dedicate their lives to curing cancer or eliminating world hunger. Let's allow Jerry Seinfeld to describe the other type of scientist:
Whoever is working on these things clearly falls into the latter category:
New mothers will be able to turn their own breast milk into jewellery, under techniques to be demonstrated by a group of artists.
The jewellery is made by boiling human milk mixed with vinegar.
This causes the casein protein in the milk to harden into a plastic, which can then be painted and moulded into any shape.
A milk model of a baby’s head which can be used as a pendant for a necklace, and a combined milk-metal bracelet, are among the objects already created by the French design collective Duende.
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Their other exhibits will include dishes for storing – and eating – a human placenta.
Look, I don't want to disparage a mother's preferred method of remembering her baby's childhood, but this is indisputably nasty. A pendant in the shape of a baby's head, made from breast milk? I bet you can preserve his spit-up, too!
What ever happened to getting a bronzed shoe? As far as I know, my mom never made any pendants of me, and I turned out all right. (Okay, that's probably debatable, but at least I'm no Jeffrey Dahmer. Yet.)
entry no. 1187
Posted at July 17, 2008 12:59 PM