Is this gifted and talented or genius?

[Swedes]

I bought a £7.99 Waitrose chocolate cake. Scraped off the chocolate scrolls that identify it as a Waitrose bought cake. I then covered the top of the cake with Maltesers, Milky Bar Buttons and Cadbury's Milk Chocolate Buttons. I couldn't help but do this in a 'sehr' artistic way. Sort of chucking the confection at the cake and absolutely leaving things as they landed; apart from the odd Malteser and Button that had to be carefully re-positioned because it just didn't look right.

I am now celebrating with a glass of wine.

Is this G & T or genius?

[lijaco]

I think this is definately artistic genius. Art can be created like this too. Allit takes is the moment and a bit of madness lol

[Swedes]

lijaco. Thanks. I don't know whether to approach the Slade or St Martin's. I feel certain they will accept the cake in lieu of a promising portfolio. It really is something special.

[Threadworrm]

True genius would be chucking the cake at the confection.

I am ignorant and therefore confused by sehr. Do you mean this person? Did you meditate while chucking? Will your dc appreciate the delineation of space on an intimate level? Will the illustration of time through process make a good party game?

[lijaco]

You will have to put it somewhere safe then because I would be very tempted to eat the choccy buttons and the maltesers. This could be a new art trend!

[Swedes]

Threadie - LOL at at chucking the cake at the confection. I mean sehr in the 8am running to the pool and positioning the towel so as to secure the best sunbeds sense.

[Swedes]

I mean to turn the artworld in on itself. Instead of the artworld laughing up its sleeve at the public fawning over shite, it will have a sleeve inside a sleeve. And it won't be entirely sure which sleeve to laugh up.

[Threadworrm]

Ah, 'sehr' as in 'sehr gut'.

Disappoined it is not Katie Sehr, or, even better, this Sehr -- those pics would have looked good in the medium of cake.

[hatwoman]

we need a pic to judge.

[Threadworrm]

With the spontaneity of your malteser positioning, you are wearing your heart on the sleeve you are laughing up.

[Threadworrm]

Yes! Pic of cake!

[SoupDragon]

but why??

[lijaco]

I thought that you should take a pic!

[lijaco]

I thought that you should take a pic!

[BoffinMum]

Quite genius actually. Jane Asher, watch out.

We recently turned two Swiss rolls and four Co-op chocolate cakes into a dalek landscape with a big dalek on top decorated with liquorice allsorts, covered the thing with Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, and peppered it with little golden daleks out of the dalek board game we have. Best fun we're ever had! Inspired by a Valerie Singleton film clip from the 1960s on a Black and White Dr Who VHS.

[Swedes]

Oh yes, will take a pic. Tomorrow. It is for DD's birthday party. Will have photos to post tomorrow.

My sons are asking if I ever bought a cake and passed it off as my own when they were little? In a tone of voice that suggests they may feel worthless if I tell the truth. The whole family suffers for my art.

[Threadworrm]

V. happy birthday Swedes DD. Hope you all have a fantastic time.

[Swedes]

Threadworm - Thank you. It was actually her birthday on Friday but we didn't tell her .

[Threadworrm]

Am becoming concerned that simply cutting and pasting the confectionary onto a pre-existing cake might count as ... ...

... blatant plagiarism. Take heed.

[Swedes]

Threadworm I only consulted cakesaver.com as a resource. Are you familiar with the work of Marcel Duchamp? He would champion my cake much as the lion doth champion vegetarian couscous.

[Threadworrm]

Ah, for artists such as you, there is no longer any notion of authenticity, only the multiplication of mutually reflecting simulacra. (Got that off cakesaver.com)

[Threadworrm]

Could you just add a Smarties bibliography around the edge?

[Swedes]

Interesting idea Threadie, dear. I did think about giving it Harribo bright red lips and a licquorice moustace and calling it gateau choclat after Marcel Duchamp after Leonardo Da Vinci. Do you think it might be too complex for G & T 3 year olds?

[Swedes]

I think I might also randomly deposit choclate money; to make it feel credit crunch and contemporary.

[Threadworrm]

Stick a credit Crunchy bar on the top.

[Swedes]

Erect like the Gherkin?