Princess Diana’s Hair Becomes Clotted Cream in the Name of Art

There is barely anything new in art these days and the misguided fools that pursue art as a career often have to stoop to shocking and disgusting things in order to draw any attention to themselves and their work. Case in point, a pair of food artists, Bompas and Parr, whose previous works are all decidedly underwhelming, have taken a speck of Princess Diana’s hair and created a clotted cream from it. They not-so-cleverly named it “occult jam.”

From KTVZ here:

The royal hair? Jam made from what its maker claims is one of Princess Diana’s hairs is up for sale at an art exhibition in London.

The preserve, called “occult jam,” is part of a surrealist art show at London’s Barbican Art Gallery that includes exhibits by Salvador Dali and Rene Margritte. The 5-pound-a-jar ($7.60) jam is both art and food, Sam Bompas, who founded catering company Bompas and Parr, said Sunday.

He said the preserve is made by infusing a tiny speck of the late princess of Wales’ hair with gin, which is then combined with milk and sugar to create a product with a taste resembling condensed milk.

The hair was bought on eBay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects what he says is celebrity hair and sells it in extremely tiny parts.

The art show’s organizers asked his company to come up with a response in food to the exhibition’s surrealist theme. Bompas said he decided to make the bizarre product to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and how language enhances the everyday eating experience.

You can buy some of the clotted cream to take home. You can have a little tea party, eat some scones and listen to Elton John’s candle in the wind. What do you think it would taste like?