Bringing together art and cuisine, artist Heather Rios creates beautiful cakes … but ones you can’t eat....
Heather Rios’s delectable polymer clay cakes
Bringing together art and cuisine, artist Heather Rios creates beautiful cakes … but ones you can’t eat. Formed of polymer clay and finished with embroidery, Rios pairs the faux desserts with a vintage plate – and sometimes even a fork!
Enveloped in realistic frosting and decorated with berries, blossoms, and sprinkles, each work evokes pieces you’d be ready to dig into at a birthday party or gathering. Rios meticulously embroiders each sponge element, fashioning patterned layers in thread on a hoop before transferring the finished panel to the sculpture.
Kauani: glowing lanterns inspired by Mexican flora
In Nahuatl, an Aztec language indigenous to Mesoamerica still spoken by more than a million people throughout Mexico, ‘kauani’ means “to flourish.”
Inés Llasera, co-founder of Tornasol Studio, and textile designer Inés Quezada conceived of a series of luminaires inspired by native flora in celebration of the region’s rich botanic diversity.
Their ongoing series, Kauani, emulates details of endemic species, drawing on textures found on cacti, geometric agaves, and the rhythmic patterns of corn. The duo also find inspiration in the unique seeds of mamey and guanabana fruits and the pigmentation of cacao and chili peppers.
