Casting Bacon in Resin

Well, I've successfully casted some bacon in resin. The reaction between the resin and catalyst that hardens the resin creates heat and cooks the bacon a bit, which was an unanticipated effect. I'm hoping that anerobic decay will take place now that the bacon is trapped in an airless environment, causing this to be an ever-evolving work of art. However, after a week - looks the same. I also have a larger full-strip of bacon that I've cast in resin, but it didn't turn out as well and needs to be polished up before it looks good enough to post a pic. I'm considering turning the full strip into a lamp. Coming soon.

Frits Jonker - Netherlands

Frits Jonker was nice enough to do some sketches for me of a bacon alphabet, including the one pictured above. I took a sketch that he did of the word bacon, photoshopped it, and adapted it into a linocut pattern. Thus my bacon linocut (below) was born. I think it turned out pretty nice.

In addition to having a really cool name, Frits publishes a daily fanzine called Showcase, be sure to check it out. He is also the most talented letterer that I've ever seen. The alphabets on his website are really amazing. Thanks Frits, you rock!

OKOK Research Bureau - United Kingdom

From the OKOK Research Bureau comes our first anti-bacon piece of art. Thank you very much. Although I am very pro-bacon myself, all perspectives are welcome here. You can oppose bacon on the grounds that it is cruel; I understand that. You can oppose bacon on the grounds that vegetarianism is better for the palnet, and you've got a point. You can argue that bacon is bad because it's detrimental to your health, and I'll still love it even though you're right. There is only one opinion here that ist verbotten. If you argue that bacon isn't tasty, well then, sir, you are a liar. Good day to you sir. I said good day!

Liquid Nitrogen Bacon Experiment

Bacon Meets Liquid Nitrogen!

Bacon Linocuts

I made these two linocuts for the bacon project. The top one shows the cuts of meat on a pig with the bacon area filled in. The other one is self-explanatory (I hope). I've been sending out prints to people with an invitation to contribute, so if your address is floating around out there on mail art websites or lists from projects I've contributed to in the past, you just might have one on the way to a mailbox near you.

John M. Bennett - OH, USA

Nocab

there was bacon in my thro

at bacon stringing up the wall ba

con shining in the street in the

laundry room a pile of bacon

and socks my tub was lined

with bacon there was bacon

singing on the TV bacon clouds

drifting in my eyes a bacon

suit drips in my closet why my

coughing thinks of bacon why my

bacon shoelace knots and cr

awls across the floor my bac

on rug was shaking in the fading light

my bacon hole my bacon ear my

bacon thinking at your steering wheel

Thank you very much for the bacon poem, John.

It induces some wonderful visuals in my mind...

Cecil Touchon - TX, USA

This contribution comes from Cecil Touchon of Fluxus Laboratories. Thanks you for your contribution, Cecil. Bacon Genetics Test Results have revealed the relationship between Kevin Bacon, Francis Bacon, and Moustache Bacon. Very interesting data indeed...

Jurgen O. Olbrich - Germany

Many thanks to Jurgen for these two wonderful postcards. The first is made with actual bacon packaging. The second is quite intimate and personal in an almost eerie way.

I found it interesting that for the listed ingredients on the package of bacon the main ingredient is 'swine flesh'. I guess in Germany they have no need for euphemisms such as our American term 'pork'. I like that. It's much more direct, and honest.

Jacque Lynn Davis - MO, USA

Thanks for the awesome art and poem, Jacque, I really appreciate it.

The Bacon Machine: Test Run

I've designed a device with a simple purpose - to spin bacon at 3,400 RPM.  I just completed my test run and have determined that cheap-ass thinly sliced generic bacon is not capable of withstanding speeds anwhere near 3,400 RPM.  However, I have more ideas, and will press on.  More to follow...

Claudio Grandinetti - Italy

"Panino con Pancetta"

Thank you very much Claudio, your collage is appreciated. I've heard that red is a 'hungy color', and your collaged sandwich is making me hungry indeed.

Keith A. Buchholz - MO, USA

Whoa - creepy souless bacon eaters.  Thanks Keith.  Hope you got the box I sent for your fluxus call.

Fake Bacons

As another part of this project I plan on regularly posting poignant questions about bacon here for further discussion.  Please engage in discussion in the 'comments' section.  The first question for your consideration is:

How do you feel about fake bacons?  There are a number of different soy-based bacons on the market along with the ubiquitous turkey bacon.  I have even recently come by bison bacon.  How do you feel about these bacon imposters?

The Holy Cross of Bacon

As my first part of this art project I made the above pictured "Holy Cross of Bacon".  I think it adequately reflects my opinion of bacon.  It's a 8inX6in block of urban-harvested sycamore finished with danish oil and adorned with bacon.  If anyone knows how to preserve bacon for the ages please do tell, my attempts to coat it in polyurethane were less than successful.

I've also made a series of 24 Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) featuring the Holy Cross of Bacon.  I'll be sending those out to some lucky people soon.