Laser-Etched Meat

Photo: mleak [Flickr]

Photo: mleak [Flickr]

Carnegie Mellon University art student and Flickr user mleak is working on a project called From Whence It Came which involves etching processed lunch meat with a laser cutter:

These are my testers for a project I’m working on using processed lunch meats etched with a laser cutter. Ultimately, I would like to show the entire process from animal to ambiguous pink slice of meat over the course of a package of lunch meat, beginning here with bologna. This neat packaged disc of food has always seemed so far removed from its source.

Link [Flickr] – via Make, thanks Adam Fuhrer!

Oh, and that’s not all: in her Atkins Nightmare project, mleak set out to create an all-carb sandwich complete with laser-etched fixings!

Photo: mleak [Flickr]