Go ahead, play with your food

If Will Cotton was a photographer, not a painter, and liked healthy food instead of candy, he would be an awful lot like Carl Warner. Warner's Foodscapes take advantage of nature's bounty to reproduce nature-scapes, a visual synecdoche of sorts.

To create his lush landscapes, the artist first sketches a scene, introduces the edibles, then captures each section in separate layers to prevent the food from wilting. Computer technology is then used to merge the layers into a final print. Eventually, Warner plans to use the images as part of an educational book to encourage kids to eat healthier. Guess his mom never told him to stop playing with his food.
Thanks to Dana for wising me up to this guy.