Burn each match just so, and arrange in a diamond.

November 22, 2017 10:44 AM

Adam Hillman, an artist from New Jersey, makes colorful geometric art from the arrangement of unremarkable objects.
posted by cortex (14 comments total)

Love this. The green/white vegetable tableau really speaks to me, since I recently started cooking recipes from one of those grocery delivery services, and I always struggle when a recipe asks you to "separate the green tops from the white bottoms of the scallions," since it's really more of a gradient than a clear distinction.
posted by Pfardentrott at 11:04 AM on November 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

#OddlySatisfying
posted by Fizz at 11:05 AM on November 22, 2017

Oreos FTW
posted by chavenet at 11:14 AM on November 22, 2017 [3 favorites]

Aah, slotting this with Wright Kitchen in the I-love-this file.
posted by rewil at 1:13 PM on November 22, 2017

Love this!
posted by Fig at 2:22 PM on November 22, 2017

OCD SATISFACTION LEVEL EXCEEDED <3
posted by numaner at 2:38 PM on November 22, 2017

Oh, these are really nice.
posted by LobsterMitten at 3:16 PM on November 22, 2017

I'm calling him Candy Goldsworthy.
posted by davebush at 3:55 PM on November 22, 2017 [2 favorites]

People always post those purpousfully cringy ‘OCD*’-botherer pictures and I always find them lovely. These, on the otherhand, make my neck stiffen as I imagine the artist laboring with a set of tweezers over his cerial and candies. Ick. But neat!

*I know this is an improper, popular sense of a real illness.
posted by es_de_bah at 5:57 PM on November 22, 2017

USAP 2016 shout out
posted by scose at 6:27 PM on November 22, 2017

The tower of Spaghetti-O's is simply momentous. Any time I'm ever frustrated when making a piece of art from here on in, I'm going to remember this, giggle, and carry on.
posted by MrVisible at 4:52 AM on November 23, 2017

I'm admittedly a hater, but to me this feels like the kind of art that couldn't exist without Instagram. I'm not decrying the act of arranging one's Froot Loops methodically, or carefully making dazzle patterns in your Oreos so much as the push to commodify one's charming weirdo quirks somehow or another, via social media.
posted by tapir-whorf at 6:40 AM on November 23, 2017

These are great, thanks!

I'm admittedly a hater, but to me this feels like the kind of art that couldn't exist without Instagram.

So what you're saying is that Instagram has engendered entirely new forms of art? That sounds fantastic!
posted by jacquilynne at 12:56 PM on November 23, 2017 [1 favorite]

This is like I Heart Hue meets Economy Custard and I love it so much!
posted by iamkimiam at 1:34 AM on November 25, 2017