Detail from Zilly Rosen’s duo cupcake portrait of Barack Obama and Abe Lincoln. The extreme close-up angle of this shot not only shows the cupcakes in detail but also makes for an interesting resemblance between our 44th President and Jay Leno (from our Flickr pool). Photo by Jeff Gates.
Last Saturday nearly 10,000 people visited American Art to witness sweet history in the making. Zilly Rosen's 5,600-cupcake presidential portrait wowed folks up on the balconies in the Luce Foundation Center, stretching over an 11' x 17' area of the concourse below. Perhaps most exciting of all was the mere 45 minutes it took the public to devour a portrait that took more than 5 hours to construct the day before! Missed it? We've thought of you and have posted some photos on our Flickr group as well as this cool time-lapse video of the whole process.
