‘The 3 Second Rule - Ice Cream Mountain Scoop’ Art Print by Vertigo Artography.
The 3 Second Rule is a perfectly conceived, immaculately executed and side splittingly funny surreal art print that takes one of the great universal laws of childhood, the sacred, scientifically dubious and absolutely non negotiable three second rule and scales it to the most spectacular dropped ice cream in the history of the planet. Photographed from altitude, a deep blue aerial panorama stretches to the horizon in every direction. Rising from the landscape below, with the perfect symmetrical geometry of a mountain cone so iconic it could only ever have been one thing all along, is a snow capped volcano peak, majestic, eternal, and also, unmistakably, a waffle cone. The golden brown latticed cone, inverted, its point buried in the earth, its wide opening forming the summit — and draped across that summit, pooling and dripping with the soft, inevitable gravity of a warm afternoon, a melting scoop of white ice cream that reads simultaneously as snow and as soft serve and as the most delicious geological event ever recorded.
The clock is ticking. The germs are coming.
The scale collision is perfect, the mountain's iconic cone shape makes it the most convincing ice cream cone in geological history and the melting scoop draped over the summit is rendered with complete photographic realism, the ambiguity between snow and ice cream held in perfect, delicious tension throughout. The deep blue aerial palette ocean, land and atmosphere merging into blue, makes the golden waffle cone and white melting scoop pop with extraordinary clarity against the landscape. This is the three second rule at planetary scale, the dropped ice cream that no child, no parent and no geological survey team is going to be able to retrieve in time, and the clock, as always, is absolutely ticking.
Perfect for kitchens, dining rooms, children's rooms, playrooms, ice cream parlours, cafes, gelaterias, quirky offices and eclectic living rooms, this piece resonates with buyers searching for funny kitchen prints, ice cream art, quirky food posters, aerial landscape prints and surreal nature art. The art print that every parent will recognise, every child will understand and every ice cream lover will feel deeply, personally and immediately in their soul.
Specifications
• All art prints are gallery quality Giclée printed.
• Printed on 200gsm archival matt paper using the finest archival inks.
• Print has a white border around the image.
• Print is titled at the base of the image with signature.
• Sizes specified are inclusive of the overall paper dimensions, including the white border.
• Art print does not include frame.
• Due to different screen configurations, the colour of the purchased print may slightly vary to what you see on your computer.
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All A3 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing envelope or tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
All A2/A1/A0 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
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