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Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads

Danish artist Soren Dahlgaard's "Dough Portrait" series is exactly what it sounds like
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Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads
Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads
Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads
Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads
Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads
Portraits of People with Dough on Their Heads

(Credit: Courtesy Sÿren Dahlgaard)

Dough Portraits is a photo series by Danish artist Soren Dahlgaard. For each of these pictures, the dough-headed people kneaded their own lumps before Dahlgaard plopped them atop their heads, making what might seem like a slightly cruel smothering into a more participatory joke.

Dahlgaard has been working with dough in other contexts for years--for Challenging Dough, he buried his head in a massive lump and struggled to escape; for Elliptic Touchdown, he assembled a group of people to sit, heads covered in dough, at a table also covered with dough (660 pounds of it, to be exact). For 3 hour sculpture, he simply put 220 pounds of dough with extra yeast in a clear box and let it rise.

Image from 3 hour sculpture

Image from 3 hour sculpture (Credit: Courtesy Soren Dahlgaard)

The Dough Portraits are more funny than menacing, but in video form, the project takes on a Blob-like creepiness:

Udi Dough Portrait video from Sÿren Dahlgaard on Vimeo.

You can buy selected prints through the NYC gallery Fortress to Solitude, which represents Dahlgaard in the US.

[via Laughing Squid]