The Vegetable Museum - 02, Ju Duoqi, 2008 The Raft of the Lotus Roots

I guess I’d rather eat my vegetables, but as a lady with an art degree, I have to admit, I am impressed. Ju Duoqi is a Chinese woman who’s been quite experimental with her vegetable art. From dressing in clothes made of vegetables, to directing a vegetable play and now recreating famous paintings (like the one above) with vegetables as her medium. Duoqi clearly knows vegetables in an intimate way. And I don’t mean that to sound gross. I mean, she clearly spends a lot of time with vegetables and sees many different layers of beauty that most of us would never notice as we’re scarfing them down for dinner. Like looking at a head of iceberg lettuce and seeing ocean waves. And that’s a huge part of what makes an artist a good artist: the ability to see beauty and build from it in ways others cannot.

Go check out more of Ju Duoqi’s “The Vegetable Museum” here: http://www.parisbeijingphotogallery.com/main/the_vegetable_museum.asp