one of tile envy's most popular posts featured whipped bakeshop's amazing delft tile cookies. readers still don't believe they aren't tiles.
shelley miller has expanded this idea to the streets- creating her sugary magic in a construct-deconstruct art form that imitates the historic portuguese azulejos murals that decorated the streets of portugal for centuries.
miller's work is also an allegorical message illustrating the parallels between the sugar industry's wealth vs. the dilapidation of the areas surrounding the production of sugar. as an admitted sugar-addict i think miller's message could double as a banner for our current health crisis relating to the global abuse of sugar.
