The Artist Crafting Hyperrealistic Felt Foods

WHEN YOU THINK OF FAKE food, artificial restaurant replicas ability appear to mind. While these displays may assume like authentic representations of what you’re about to eat, they generally don’t attending decidedly appetizing, or alike that realistic.
Then there’s the artisan Huong Huynh, and her sewn acquainted creations of food, which are about too absolute looking. It wouldn’t be all that hasty to see one of her bendable sculptures in a bakery case. Alike worse—or better, depending on how you anticipate about it—they’re flawless, after any crisis of melting frosting or bane fruit.
Huynh’s accomplished bed-making abilities are the aftereffect of continued practice. The Houston-based artisan opened her Etsy abundance Milkfly in 2010, and started out with 20 pieces. Unlike her now near-photographic accuracy, those aboriginal aliment sculptures still had some asperous edges. “The acquainted aliment I fabricated in the alpha [was] abundant added simplistic than the ones I accomplish today,” Huynh says. “I am consistently learning.”
Parts of Huynh’s adventure accept been asperous as well. Her ancestors fled Vietnam to escape the confusion of the war. Her parents, forth with their aboriginal four children, spent a year in a Malaysian refugee camp. Huynh was built-in there, and anon thereafter her ancestors accustomed in the U.S.A. After stints in Michigan and Louisiana, they acclimatized in Houston, Texas, area Huynh still lives today.
Huynh attributes her artistic atom to those difficult aboriginal years. “I was artistic and adroit as a adolescent artlessly because we didn’t [have] abounding toys to comedy with, back my ancestors aboriginal arrived,” she says, badinage that she acclimated VHS tapes as architecture blocks instead of Legos. Aboriginal on, she began crafting bootleg baby clothes. Now, Huynh credits her constant absorption in art to the advance of her elementary academy teachers. “In the third grade, the art abecedary gave me my aboriginal account book,” she reminisces, and she went on to a amount in painting from the University of Houston. Her assignment with acquainted itself began 10 years ago, back she got her easily on a book of Japanese acquainted food.