Silicone rubber mosaic. "Marmalade" by Kevin Champeny (Kevin Champeny)

Opponents of gummy chewing candy for good reason call them “rubber pullers”. Both externally and in consistency, these candies really resemble the silicone rubber figurines that New York artist Kevin Champeny puts out his large-scale creative installations. One of his latest mosaics, What Remains, is a huge skull of thousands of tiny silicone roses.



Kevin Champeny has the patience of an angel, the perseverance of a monk and the precision of a surgeon, otherwise he would hardly have been able to create such detailed mosaics consisting of many thousands of miniature, even tiny figures. All of them are handmade, stacked in several layers and fastened with polyurethane resin - for strength. The complexity of the process and long weeks or even months of work do not scare the artist, because the award is an impressive result: huge panels of 4x5m in size from tens of thousands of “chewing candy”.





For the manufacture of these miniature flowers, the author uses special moulds, the same ones in which the mixture is poured for the production of chewing marmalade. And to obtain the desired color or its shade, the author manually mixes the substance with dyes made of polyurethane resins. By the way, none of his works are monochromatic, even the skull of 35,000 tea roses is painted in every imaginable shade of beige.







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