Conversation Hearts (A terrible tasting candys' horrific origins).
No Peeps Were Harmed In the Making of This Image (I waited until they all died of natural causes).
[edit- I told you it would be sick. I'll try for something really heartwarming next time...heh]
38 comments:
I always wondered where those came from! Love the details.
I love the fence with all the little live peeps crowded together awaiting their fate. That's my kind of sugary sweet!
Ahhhh! I shall never eat a conversation heart again!!!
That IS really twisted, dude. Read too many CRACKED mags in your youth, did ya?
No Peeps were harmed, sure. But no objects were bent, either. Shouldn't this image have been posted instead on macabreconfections.blogspot.com? (Peeps and Conversation Hearts are © by their respective manufacturers, Just Died and Necro.)
Question. Are the hearts being painted with the delicious blood of peeps? Or are the conversation hearts actually coming out of the peep, fully formed?
Hmm, yes, that's what's missing...the wires.
I am also somewhat confused by exactly how the peeps turn into conversation hearts...
I was confused at first too, but eventually came to believe that the conversation hearts are depicted as the actual hearts of the Peeps, ripped from their bodies, and then painted with words for our Valentine's day pleasure. I think open incisions on the chests would make it a bit more clear (and little more gory too).
OMG! I wasn't confused at all, just shocked! This is horrendously wonderful!
If you click on the image, you can see it a little bigger, which may make it easier to see what happened.
Maureen- Not much of a sacrifice on your part.
Moonshadow- Yes.
Carol and Dave- The peeps behind the fence have wire legs, not that anyone can tell. Not much wire needed in this one. I'm planning a couple of all wire pieces though, so it'll even out.
Noah- Thank you
Sylvia- thanks
Anonymous- take a closer look.
spaceranger- stabbing peeps just isn't my thing. there's only so far that I'll go for art.
I'm glad this won the poll! PERFECT!
Took me a while to get this one, I love the idea of tearing the hearts out of the peeps.
Perhaps the addition of a wire figure (maybe a chocolate bar) weilding the knife would have made the process a little clearer.
As usual I love the work though.
as any Futurama fan knows...
those hearts are really made from bone meal and earwig honey.
Oh my gosh, this is freaking awesome! The poor Peeps...sniff...
I must restate: Conversation hearts are NOT a terrible candy. I was eating them by the handfuls yesterday.
Conversation gizzards!
Well, Terry, I'm not going to be the Wire Police on your site, because I love your work!
Hahaha! That's awesome! It kind of makes sense to me now since I don't like peeps or conversation hearts candies.
Keep up the twisted work. It's hilarious!
Natsthename and Scarlett- Thank you.
Joe- get some help. ask for a psychiatrist while you're getting your stomach pumped.
kerry- that's pretty good.
people seem to like your picture, also.
Dave- thanks. sometimes there isn't a need for lot of wire.
msraynsford- thanks. if people don't understand one image, another will be along shortly.
tatman- thank you.
anonymous- that happens to be the main diet of marshmallow chicks.
all this is great but the peeps would have to be from last year because peeps are made only for easter and valentines day is before easter.
this again leaves me confused....
Very nice and dark!
I am with the others though, I didnt quite get it until I read the comments. My first impression was the blood was being used to write on the hearts, but there are multiple paint colors so that did not make sense. I didn't pick up that the hearts were from the peeps.
Sarah, maybe you don't go down the candy aisle much, but peeps are around most of the year anymore. There must be something addictive in the marshmallow fluff that keeps people buying them all year long for stores to keep them on the shelves this long, IMO...
I can't see very much of the details, even when I click on it... I must need a bigger monitor! HA HA! FUNNY, TERRY!
True story -- I used to like to annoy my father (well, still do) when he asked if we needed anything form the store. I would always say, "Peeps". So one day he found a monster supply of Peeps (I believe it was a million individual Peeps). And, the fool that I am, I ate all of them. Peeps look pretty much the same coming up, and I no longer can eat them.
So, this piece with the inclusion of Peeps calls to me in some way...
Very sick and very twisted! I love it! But like most everyone else I didn't get it until I read the comments which just makes it that much more funnier. I think peeps taste disgusting. They're right up there with the conversation hearts. A perfect end those peeps.
Joe - Terry's right, you have "issues". jk
Sara - they even make Christmas tree peeps. If they made reindeer peeps they'd be called poops.
On with the blather
I feel a connection to your poor little Peeps. They're made in my hometown. Maybe I'll drive by the plant tomorrow and leave some flowers by the door.... *sniff*
Personnaly, I'm left a bit confused and it leaves me cold. Where's the humanoid morphology that you give to objects which make your art form so interesting? At least if we could have seen the murderer or something.
Maybe that's just me. But I prefered your older pieces.
My two cents. But hey! Keep up the good work!
I heart Peeps, and I heart hearts.
Is the point that Hitler was a painter?
Andrew- No. Although I hear that he was.
Thanks to Steve "The Sneeze.com" for linking to this today.
To those who didn't understand it, you just aren't looking close enough I guess!!!
I think people are over thinking this a bit. I absolutly love it. I think my favorite part is the crossed out peep eyes. :)
what ARE peeps? do we get them in the UK?
Oh Terry, I SO love this. Hilarious.
=D
Peeps are sacred.
I wish the pic was bigger when you click on it. I can't tell if their beaks have been hacked off (thereby using their conversational parts) or if their hearts have been ripped out.....And then the artists easel really confuses me. Blank hearts on the left, conversation hearts on the right......oh, I am so confused...but then, that isn't all so hard to accomplish.
But usually, I think your stuff ROCKS and have shared it with everyone I know!!
excruciatingly, that doesn't really help me XD
good story Becky.
confua- they're a marshmallow like confection covered with granular sugar shaped like baby chicks. they are marketed at Easter time.
How can anyone not GET this? My morning tea came out my nose, and I send the link to everyone. The butcher/artist is obviously taking a break, from all that Colt 45. This is a metaphorical bent, no redundant wire needed this time.
I... I think I love you. (sniff)
i probably used too much brain power figuring out my suggestion of what the story is:
first the peeps were slain. the absent artist (he broke the seal too early and now has to go every ten minutes) is going down the list, painting the phrases on each from the pile of blank hearts...you can just barely see that ask me, get real and i hope are in the "finished" bin.
Terry,
I love this one. I just came back to it in order to print it out and post it on my cubicle wall on Valentine's Day, but the image size is too small to print well. I don't suppose it'd be possible to post a higher-resolution version in honor of V-Day?
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