PROJECTS > Manufactured Mutants

Originally designed during WW II as chocolate resistant to melting in soldiers’ pockets, M&M became a pervasive and cheerful icon of the American candyscape during the decades that followed. M&M’s identity is no doubt defined by its bold primary colors and impeccable uniformity. In the utopian world of perfect M&Ms, the peanut variety occupies a unique place where industrial consistency and natureís organic forms collide. As a photographer, I am interested in the imperfect pellets that express this collision. These manufactured mutants are the only ones that have personality and have a story to tell. I think of them as accidental sculptures, beautiful and grotesque at once. These are their portraits.