Oh, Barf: Traumatic Face Injuries Replicated by Candy

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Dutch artist Ashkan Honarvar, recreated eerie representations of gory facial injuries using ice cream and candy.

The photos are manipulated and sweets are transposed over blood and wounds to create images that are disturbing, haunting, and strangely beautiful.  The amount of detail that goes into each portrait is stunning.  And while the “wounds” are digitally created, they’re inspired by actual injuries sustained by soldiers in WWI. Says Honarvar, this photo series is a way to “search for an identity and the physical and psychological wounds inflicted on soldiers by war.”

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“The body, torn by acts of war… is the focal point of [this] work.” It’s certainly hard to look away from anything else (except the disturbingly flat eyes of all the models) but we do have to wonder if we’ll ever see candy the same way again.

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H/T + Picthx Huff Po

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