In 2007, Japanese artist Takao Sakai started the ‘Azurer Project’ as a mockumentary in which he made beards out of azuki beans and photographed strangers wearing it.
The trend went unexpectedly viral in Japan with 1.7 million wearers.
This March, Sakai will be bringing them to New York in collaboration with the New City Art Fair. Participants will be led on a fun guided tour of New York wearing their own azuki bean beards.
New Yorkers, would you wear a bean beard?
Check them out below.
[via Spoon & Tamago]