Ginou Choueiri's Potato Portraits

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These are totally rad! Real live potato heads, I would so like one of these portraits, but how to preserve it? Hmmm. Ginou Choueiri is the Lebanese artist mastermind behind these treats. She says about her potato portraits:

I chose the potato to portray the human face due to it's many striking parallels.  Not only is their skin porous like ours but they also come in different colors, shapes and sizes.  Potato heads grow, sprout, age, then decay... but they refuse to go without a trace.

I still can't figure out how they are transferred on there, hand drawn? Stamp? Tattooing needle!? More of the stunning portraits can be seen on her site.[via Wooster Collective]  

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