You’ve seen chewing gum used as a painting medium. You’ve seen chewing gum as a source of annoyance on your shoe and in your hair. But it was designed to be chewed. And that’s exactly what a 30-year-old gum-sculpting electrician from Transylvania does, and can be seen doing in WOW’s upcoming six-part series, Wack TV Passport, on VH1. All we know about the man who can make tiny animals in his mouth using only his tongue and teeth comes from Tasha Newsome, who did some research on him:
“He prefers to work with gum that is past the expiration date. It takes him about three hours of chewing to get a piece of gum the right consistency for art. Once he’s done that, it takes him only 30 second to make a turtle, 20 seconds for a pig, and over a minute for something complicated like a UFO. Unless he’s out and about handing the sculptures to unsuspecting kids, he submerges the tiny artifacts in water to harden them. When he’s really on his game he can do as many as 20 an hour.”
