Artist Coats House With Cheese
Billie
POWELL, Wyo. (AP) - Cosimo Cavallaro has a vision - and it involves cheese.
Tons and tons of cheese, in fact. Enough cheese to blanket a house.
The New York artist began spraying pepperjack cheese in the bedroom of a vacant
home Tuesday. By the time he's done, 10,000 pounds of cheese will cover the
home, inside and out.
Welcome to the Wyoming Cheese House, the latest project for an artist who lays
claim to having covered a hotel room and the model Twiggy in cheese. Now he's
set his sights on a bigger target.
Cavallaro explains his interest in cheese this way: ``It's milk. It's life.''
Sharon Earhart, the executive director of the Powell Chamber of Commerce (news
- web sites), sees the project as fun, a bit silly and reason enough for a
parade. She's involved in ``Cheesefest'' scheduled Oct. 27, which will feature
a parade and a cheese king and queen.
Other residents are, well, cheesed.
Jim Montoya, a neighbor, sees it as a nuisance that could attract not only mice
and birds but also more people to what he says is a normally quiet
neighborhood.
And Bob Mueller sees the project as a mistake that could make this northern
Wyoming farming community of 5,373 a laughingstock.
Besides, he said, ``I don't consider painting something with food art.''
With some help, Cavallaro began Tuesday to melt down the cheese. He and his
helpers cut off chunks - whitish-yellow and dotted with red and green - which
were placed in barrels surrounded by heated water.
Cavallaro said he planned to use about 10,000 pounds of cheese, which aides
said was not suitable to eat.
A pump sent the warmed cheese through a hose, spurting it into the house. As it
hit the brown walls, floral-print curtain and furniture, the cheese gave off a
warm, pleasant aroma.
Cavallaro's vision through art, he said, ``is beauty.''
Mayor Jim Milburn was one of a number of people who stopped for a peek. ``It
looks like a work in progress,'' he said. ``I didn't really have a concept of
what to expect. The color gives it a nice texture.''
Earhart said Cavallaro's project and resulting media coverage gives city
leaders a chance to showcase Powell as a possible attraction for families and
new businesses.
Demolition of the house, which has been vacant for some time, is scheduled to
begin about Nov. 1, Milburn said.
That may not be soon enough for Montoya. ``It sure doesn't look like art, and I
have a feeling it's going to smell,'' he said. It may not have been so bad, he
said, ``if it was not 12 feet from my bed.'' -
On the Net:
Cosimo Cavallaro: http://www.cosimocavallaro.com
Powell Chamber of Commerce: http://www.powellchamber.org
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Bella LeGhostly
Cornelius) wrote:
>Does anyone remember the backward past, when artists actually had talent?
Giulianni had it all figured out when he stated that if he could do
it, it's not art!
Dan J.
"Yukon Cornelius" <guhmin...@aol.commode> wrote in message
news:20011018114946...@mb-fc.aol.com...
> Does anyone remember the backward past, when artists actually had talent?
Yeah. I think it all ended with Christo, I think that is his name, the guy
that put a pink border around some small islands. In retrospect, I guess he
was the inspiration for 'Changing Rooms' and 'Trading Spaces' - turning a
perfectly nice looking set of islands into a ghastly eye-sore. They should
be renamed "When Designers Attack".
Bella LeGhostly
<calli...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Yeah. I think it all ended with Christo, I think that is his name, the guy
>that put a pink border around some small islands. In retrospect, I guess he
>was the inspiration for 'Changing Rooms' and 'Trading Spaces' - turning a
>perfectly nice looking set of islands into a ghastly eye-sore. They should
>be renamed "When Designers Attack".
I like Changing Rooms, but I really do wonder about those people. I
couldn't imagine living in a place that had been done in such a
disgustingly garish manner. They look like the type of places that
would make you get all dizzy and nauseaus with the flashes of bright
zig-zagging colors.
My favorite one is that really out there glam guy with the long hair
and Adam Ant-y jackets on Changing Rooms -- he's so tacky, everything
he goes near is an instant disaster. I also like the dark haired
bossy chick -- she never listens to reason.