Beef Cow Sculpture and Artist Statement

For my transformation project, I was inspired by Tom Friedman, an artist who made a sculpture of himself completely out of sugar cubes. I was inspired by the simplicity of the cubes, and the obsession that went into it's creation. I've created a small sculpture of a cow, out of beef bouillon cubes.

I think the sculpture makes a statement to American crippling food industry. A beef cube is composed almost entire of salt, with added beef "flavor". No beef is involved, so it's not surprising that no one associated them with beef, cow, or meat for that matter. Also, it's made from 189 cubes, if your curious.

RUNNING TOTAL: 189 cubes.

I had a slight accident with the head, which decided to fall off overnight. I had to apply much more glue to its neck line than I wanted, but it's staying. Not going to get much on craft because of that aspect I think. The cubes have started sucking in all the moisture in the air and are getting soft and crumbling. Therefore I'm applying heavy amounts of hot glue to keep it sturdy.

Words to describe it now would be:

• ironic
• brown
• cubist
• large
• heavy
• dense
• smelly
• SMELLY
• SMEEELLLLYYY
• gross
• decaying
• structure