Artists join hands for African cake sculpture project
For years, Madhubashini Yatagama, the Director of Cakes n Creations has been touring the world, sharing and learning as much as she could about the ever changing Cakes and Sugar Art industry.
Yatagama has been residing in Botswana for the past 17 years. And her travels across the world has seen her collaborating with an array of artists all over the world. One thing that continues to grow is her love for Southern Africa and the continent as a whole. It is that love that has seen her working and bringing together over 30 Cake and Sugar artists from around the world in a beautiful and sweet tribute to the continent that she says she loves dearly.
She tells this publication that she used this opportunity to work on a cake collective project, and channel her passion and those of her colleagues for this continent and their craft. The end result for the African Pride A- Cake Collection is something else. The artists come from all over the world ranging from Peru, the USA, Romania and Bangladesh to mention a few.
Beyond the tribute to the continent, the artists showcase that there is a lot more to cake than just enjoying it as a sweet treat as it can be transformed into just about anything.
Her piece itself is breathtakingly beautiful. She chose the sculpture of a woman wearing traditional jewelry and accessorized with a German print head wrap.
For this piece, she used molding chocolate, rice crispy treats, fondant and rice paper. Other artworks such as that of Olina Wolfs from Netherlands are also beautiful. Wolfs created a stunning sculpture of an African hunter from Gambia.
The hunter is almost real and is even enjoying a pipe.
There is a piece by Silyvia Jankowski, owner of Bicky Piccy. Interestingly, Jankowski used a biscuit display to create a stunning bushman household. She was motivated to do this piece as a dedication to the inspiring Bushman family, who she recently met in the Kalahari desert.
Speaking in an interview with this publication, Yatagama explains that she wanted to share this adventure with her colleagues from around the world in order to dive deep into the rich African heritage and used various mediums to channel that content into amazing art pieces.
“I couldn’t be happier with the end product,” she explains.
She further says that she discovered and was ecstatic that all the artists were happy to be part of something this amazing and big.
“The theme really resonated
with the community,” she says.
She further says that the works were out of this world, and that they paid homage to the continent with each piece being tastefully inspired from the wide back catalogue of styles, prints, colours, patterns and designs.
“Without the contributions of all these artists, this collaboration would not have been a success.
I am incredibly proud of all of the hard work that they have invested in the project,” she says.