Eating the Biscuit City

by Kevin Humphrey on February 23rd, 2006

Eating the Biscuit City Earlier this week, Chinese artist Song Dong completed an art installation in London, England’s Selfridges department store. ‘Eating the City‘, built from thousands of cookies and biscuits, depicts a traditional Asian city linked to a more modern looking cityscape.

Song Dong is hoping to highlight his concerns over modern urban development in Asia and how it all looks the same to him. He’s built similar ‘biscuit cities‘ in Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and Paris.

Eating the Biscuit City The week-long project required about 72,000 biscuits; including digestives, chocolate digestives, rich tea, hobnobs, caramels and fruit shortcake. Once completed on Wednesday, Selfridges customers were going to be given the chance to help themselves to the stale and crumbling edifices.