Twisted Mister

Comments (0) By Tricia Parker Thursday, Jun 30 2011

Most people wouldn’t exactly see art in an Oreo cookie, a mousetrap, or Preparation H suppositories, but artist Terry Border looks past the mundane to transform these everyday objects into small, humorous sculptures.

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Border collects items you might find in drawers and cabinets around the house and twists ordinary hardware store wire into appendages for the less-than-arty objects. He can anthropomorphize anything: Snack foods become handsy teenagers rolling around on mom’s couch, while Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet – as played by a peanut in the shell -- holds a tiny skull carved from an individual nut in his weirdly expressive wire hands. Alas, poor Yorick, I ate his friends!

Good thing Border is probably at the end of his peanut phase. “Peanuts made sense,” he says. “They have shells, skins, insides. They are a little challenging to carve.” Like Border’s other food sculptures, they also decay, so you’ll have to content yourself with photos of all of his punny displays.

Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: June 3. Continues through July 29, 2011