Gummy bears in their original size are spongy and adorable, but blow them up to huge proportions and they become sort of unsettling. At the Malta Street Art Festival in July, this is what bystanders encountered as one gummy bear 3D street art amazed and threatened to absorb them into their gelatinous bodies.
The giant gummy bear street art was showcased along a footpath in the Valletta capital in Malta.
Along with the sofa-sized gummy bears, part of the Malta Street Art Festival also showcased more than two-dozen urban street artists who painted random things like a phantom in a box, Gollum and a freakish eye, reported Citylab.
While the streets were filled with entertainment and art during the art, artist Leon Keer took his creation to the next level with the giant gummy bears. Not only were they huge drawings, but the gummy bears were in 3D and seemed to come to life, according to Food Beast.
Keer, who is from the Netherlands and is nicknamed the "Chalk King" for his puzzling creations, drew the faux giant gummy bear candies with chalk. The bears then seem to come to "come to life" when viewed from above.
Leon Keer was reportedly able to execute his amazing chalk creations through a technique he likes to call "anamorphic distortion." The technique make the giant gummies appear like hazy splotches of color, but from 100 feet above they appear life-like and seem to jiggle.
One can even say that the scene viewed with these giant gummy bears is slightly ghastly as the bears appear to be gathering around a collapsed friend. Apparently, the art indeed has a dark twist and what Keer presented was a homicide scene.
"Gummy bears gather around their just-deceased green friend," said Keer as he described his art.
Leon Keer's optical illusions have appeared not just in the streets of Malta but in other public spaces around the world as well. He creates them either as commissions or part of arts festivals, according to nzherald.co.
Another great shot of Leon Keers masterpiece 3d street art by Leon Keer
Posted by Malta street art festival on Wednesday, July 29, 2015
A photo posted by Leon Keer (@leonkeer) on Jul 30, 2015 at 9:31am PDT
Anamorphic distortion Gummy bear painting. #MaltaStreetartFestival @addmorecolors #3dstreetart #anamorphosis #valetta #gummybear A photo posted by Leon Keer (@leonkeer) on Jul 28, 2015 at 6:50am PDT
A photo posted by Leon Keer (@leonkeer) on Jul 27, 2015 at 7:57am PDT
