Gallery: An Artist Sculpted Everything He Ate in a Year

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    Itamar Gilboa's "Food Chain Project" visualizes how much food he consumed as cast sculpture.
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    The artist, surrounded by plaster food.
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    To make the sculptures, Gilboa created silicone molds of all the food he ate.
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    He then cast the food in a white plaster.
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    Gilboa arranged the food in a fake supermarket set up to highlight how much food he consumed over the year.
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    A close-up of cast cauliflower.
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