Crêpes. Macarons. Crème brûlée. Kwah-sonts. The French have long been the arbiters of the world’s best desserts, and now Paris-based Le Creative Sweatshop (comprised of Julien Morin and Mathieu Missiaen) has made its own improvements on Jell-O, the old American standard. The duo has taken advantage of the nursing home staple's transparency, which diffuses light in such a way that lends itself perfectly to creating luminous, candy-colored sculptures.
"The idea came when I was eating Teddy Bear candy and I saw the light through it," Missiaen told ARTINFO. By sticking light fixtures into molds they later filled with gelatin, they created ephemeral modernist lamps that lasted just long enough to be photographed. The jiggly pieces are gorgeous enough to eat, although we don't recommend it. As delicious-looking as they are, those strawberry and blue raspberry tints come from ink — perhaps not so far off from the chemicals that go into real Jell-O, but we'd avoid ingesting it all the same.
To see more of Le Creative Sweatshops gummi light fixtures, click the slide show.