To most people, 10,000 pounds of
condemned pepper-jack cheese
might seem like a simple, if unappetizing,
waste-disposal problem. But to
New York artist Cosimo Cavallaro, it
was an opportunity. Cavallaro — who
had previously constructed a life-size
bed made entirely of cake, as well as
several smaller works in the medium
of cheese — conceived a more ambitious
project: to spray an entire house
and its contents with a thick layer of
the melted stuff.
After negotiations with a number of
cities and towns, the Montreal-born
sculptor finally located just the right
structure — an abandoned house in
the small community of Powell, Wyo.
With the agreement of the City of
Powell, Cavallaro and a small army of
volunteers set