Gumi has got to be a food group

California-based artist Jeanne Vadeboncoeur has created a series of photorealistic paintings that feature charmingly expressive gummy bears. She paints the candy bears in various positions—sitting primly, on their heads, toppled over—Vadeboncoeur has imbued her subjects with a curious melancholy. The infusion of melancholy is most striking. 

To me it looks like honest art about any creature that knows it's own fate ... and let's be honest, it's probably going to be eaten, and it knows it. Considering that they are made to be eaten combined with they daily war they fight to exist in a food chart that dose not even recognizre them as a food group you start to imagine just how it feels to be from the world of gumi. Pathos injected into candy, few can pull that off. Perhaps only one, Jeane Vadeboncoeur.