Sculpture -- Like a Museum

We had studied a number of artists whose work was at the intersection between art and science. A good example of this is Herbert Distel and his Museum of Drawers. Another example was the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. As part of this assignment we had to form teams, study displays in museums and do a proposal for a display that was "like a museum". Our proposal was The Twinkies Project, in which we would document all the wild myths, unbelievable truths and slight exaggerations about Twinkies.

Some of the artifacts for our display included the Twinkie (on the left) that was found among the stomach contents of a 25,000 year old frozen Woolly Mammoth. Next to it is a Twinkie where the chemical process was stopped right in the middle so you could see the interior bubbling up. Next to it is a Twinkie that has been dissected. The items that were labelled include: Rocket Fuel, Glue, Embalming Fluid, Tracer Bullet Phosphorus, Colorants, Petroleum and "Just Chemicals". Next to it is a light that is being powered by the chemicals in the Twinkie. The light was able to stay on for the whole two week display. One thing that we asserted was that there is enough power in a package of Twinkies to run a VW bus cross-country. On the right we showed "Twheaties" a cross between Twinkies and Wheaties, a product that is available in some other countries. Finally in front you can see a Twinkie from which someone took a bite. We don't know what happened to them afterward.