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Performance artist Millie Brown has an unusual style of painting–instead of using brushes, she drinks colored milk and vomits it onto canvases.
Brown mixes colored dyes with soy milk and swallows it in intervals before regurgitating it. She prepares for each performance by fasting for two days beforehand so that the liquid she hurls is purely the color that is ingested. Depending on the type of performance, she can drink between one pint to four liters at one go.
The 27-year-old has been creating such artworks since 2005 and has appeared in Lady Gaga’s 2006 video for Exorcist Interlude in which she sprays shiny turquoise liquid all over the singer.
Despite her questionable method, Brown says it doesn’t affect her health as she keeps to a healthy vegan lifestyle, and only creates one art piece a month. In an interview with the Daily Mail, she likens her art to a cleanse for the body and mind, and says her aim is to push boundaries to create work that has beauty and meaning. “By creating art from the very depths of my own physical being I am able to challenge people’s perception of beauty, expressing raw elements of human nature and in turn challenging myself both physically and mentally.”
Read the full interview with Brown here and check out some pictures of her performances below.
What do you think of Brown’s unique method of painting? Is it artistic or is it just disgusting?
[via Beautiful Decay and Daily Mail, images by Caters News Agency for the Daily Mail]
Performance artist Millie Brown has an unusual style of painting–instead of using brushes, she drinks colored milk and vomits it onto canvases.
Brown mixes colored dyes with soy milk and swallows it in intervals before regurgitating it. She prepares for each performance by fasting for two days beforehand so that the liquid she hurls is purely the color that is ingested. Depending on the type of performance, she can drink between one pint to four liters at one go.
The 27-year-old has been creating such artworks since 2005 and has appeared in Lady Gaga’s 2006 video for Exorcist Interlude in which she sprays shiny turquoise liquid all over the singer.
Despite her questionable method, Brown says it doesn’t affect her health as she keeps to a healthy vegan lifestyle, and only creates one art piece a month. In an interview with the Daily Mail, she likens her art to a cleanse for the body and mind, and says her aim is to push boundaries to create work that has beauty and meaning. “By creating art from the very depths of my own physical being I am able to challenge people’s perception of beauty, expressing raw elements of human nature and in turn challenging myself both physically and mentally.”
Read the full interview with Brown here and check out some pictures of her performances below.
What do you think of Brown’s unique method of painting? Is it artistic or is it just disgusting?
[via Beautiful Decay and Daily Mail, images by Caters News Agency for the Daily Mail]