These Mini Clay Dishes Will Have Your Mouth Watering

Most of us look at food and wonder how to make it bigger but Chennai based artist Rupashree Adam went another direction and decided to make her food smaller...much smaller. A third year Visual Arts student Rupashree decided to push the limits of her creativity and bring together two of her greatest loves, art and food by creating miniature versions of her favourite dishes and the result of this holy coupling is nothing short of adorable.

From a young age she always loved to play with mini cooking sets where she could set up and control her own Lilliputian kitchen. As grew older she would make little replicas of her favourite food out of chapati dough whenever she helped her mother cook. It took her several years to realise that this childhood hobby would eventually become an all-consuming passion.

It was in her first year of college, when she started working with clay, that she realised her talent for recreating clay food. She even surprised herself with the realism and accuracy of her work. These miniature delights may not be edible but Rupashree lavishes all her care on her creations ‘I create my food miniatures with as much care and passion as the Chefs in the Five Star Hotels and other exotic Eateries do with the real food that they dish out,’ she says.

Her creations come from all over the globe, amassing to quite an impressive collection and she has no plans to slow down now, in fact, she intends to make these little treasures available to the public. She’s also planning to release a video detailing how she goes about making the clay models so if you want you could try your hand at it too. Best of all she intends to make her art available to the public in the next few months, so all of us who are pining after her mouth-watering creations will finally be satiated.

You can check out all her work on her Facebook page or her blog 'Charming Miniatures'

Words: Shireen Jamooji