Meat the Beetles

Dammit, what did I tell you about playing with your food?

An artist best known for his work with cheese has broadened his palette, or palate, to ham and covered a four-poster bed with the meat. Cosimo Cavallaro, who once repainted a New York hotel room in melted mozzarella, used 140kg of ham in his latest work.
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The work, which took three and a half hours, will be kept in the air-conditioned room for two days. According to the artist, no concern about cockroaches had been raised. "They are welcome," he said. "Imagine what this looks like from the point of view of an insect." He added that his cheese exhibits had never attracted a mouse.
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Sliced ham, Mr Cavallaro said, was "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite his training in an Italian art school, he said he had rejected Prosciutto: "It would have been pompous." He also shelved an idea to do ham and eggs as "too pretentious, too thought out."
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Mr. Cavallaro said his cheese period ended two years ago, after he had sprayed five tonnes of pepper jack over a vacant house in Powell, Wyoming. "I was cloaking myself in cheese. I had started getting comfortable," he said. "I always need new boundaries."

What I wouldn't give to have those sorts of work problems...