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Fascinating Chewing Gum Art

I can’t decide if this guy is a genius or if he is having a mid life crisis. Ben Wilson, age 41, travels around Europe painting the gum that people have spit out on the sidewalks. He can spend up to ten hours painting one piece of gum. Your mind isn’t blown yet? Well check out the photos below.

Each one of these painted pieces of gum is only about 1 inch tall and 1 inch wide. This is a meticulous process where he first blow torches the gum to heat it, then he adds lacquer to harden it and finally he paints it with acrylic paints.

He has painted over 10,000 pieces of discarded gum all over the UK and Europe. Ben says, “I am caring about the environment I am working in – in my rucksack I have a dustpan and brush and I will be sweeping up glass or sick all the time. It’s definitely art, but I wouldn’t actually worry if you called it vandalism.” Wallflower Dispatches did a wonderful interview with Ben that you can read here.

Being the germophobe that I am, I can’t get passed the thought of touching someone’s spit ridden piece of gum on the pavement, but I suppose the blow torch gets rid of all the germs, right? :)

Each one of these colorful little designs below is a piece of gum stuck to the concrete.


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Author: Diana Adams


As the editor and global advertising director for Bit Rebels, Diana spends her days fine-tuning the content for Bit Rebels and working with established companies, startups, app developers and Internet entrepreneurs who want to be associated with the Bit Rebels brand. Diana started with Bit Rebels in July of 2009, three weeks after the site launched. She brought fifteen years of Information Technology experience and a love of everything considered geek with her, and she enjoys the journey each day as the site continues to reach more people and progress at a very fast pace. You can usually find Diana working in the Bit Rebels office located in Atlanta or sitting in the corner of a downtown Starbucks somewhere with her MacBook, iPad, iPhone and a Grande Caramel Macchiato. You can reach Diana at diana@bitrebels.com.

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