A new world record has been set for an artwork made of bread.
When you’re trying to come up with a really unusual birthday present, it pays to use your loaf.
In the case of Laura Hadland, she used 600 of them.
The 27-year-old museum curator turned a photo of her mother-in-law, Sandra Whitfield, into the world’s largest toast mosaic – comprising 9,852 slices.
Mrs Hadland roped in 40 friends to help her make the tribute, which she describes as ‘a treat made with love and a sense of randomness’.
They used a battery of nine toasters to brown the slices of bread to varying degrees before arranging it to make the 32ft 8in by 42ft 3in picture at an arts venue in Mrs Whitfield’s home town of Warrington, Cheshire.
After spending six hours painstakingly perfecting the image, Laura surprised her husband Mike’s mother with the unusual portrait to celebrate her 50th birthday.
The enormous picture was confirmed yesterday as having set a new Guinness World Record as the largest toast mosaic.
There’s more at the link.
I suppose it’s logical that the toast portrait should have been made in England, traditionally regarded as the home of class consciousness. After all, the artist can certainly claim to be well bread!
Peter