Maparoni

Granted this is silly.

Assignment was to take a recognizable symbol, object, etcetera and cover it with a single material -- a material not usually associated with the entity. The alternative title to this is "And called it Macaroni" (or perhaps ...called it Maparoni") as in ditty "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

Took a balloon, one of my favorite happy things, paper "mache-d" it, painted it, and then covered it with dyed macaroni. Used a bit of rubbing alcohol and food coloring with uncooked pasta. Drew the world on the surface, which is a bit tricky....so used to seeing continents/countries flat, the perspective is different, as is the scale of a single country versus the globe. Yes, it did take some time, especially since I used tweezers at the beginning.

Put the USA in "natural" color pasta to highlight this nation we hear all about. For being only 5% of the population, we sure do get around!