--- title: Avocado Art Is here to replace latte art PHOTOS description: Reddit and Instagram are going wild for eye-catching "avocado art," works of art delicately engraved into the flesh of the green superfood. canonical: https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-12T21:09:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:25.848Z og:title: Intricate Avocado Art Is Exactly as Crazy As You Think It Is og:description: Prepare for the eye-catching new food trend og:url: https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Intricate Avocado Art Is Exactly as Crazy As You Think It Is twitter:description: Prepare for the eye-catching new food trend twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Eye-Catching Avocado Art Is Exactly as Crazy As It Sounds  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 12, 2017 9:09 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 12, 2017 9:09 PM UTC For a creative mind, everything is a medium. Even the food we eat. Even, say, [an avocado](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/3024/cut-avocados-safely-with-this-step-by-step-guide). Once more, everyone’s [favorite green superfood](http://time.com/money/4792222/housing-millennials-avocados-goat-yoga-romper/) is in the spotlight, thanks to its supple yet firm interior flesh, which provides an optimal canvas for culinary artists to make a miniature-sized masterpiece. But snap that pic quickly; avocado flesh will turn brown in an instant if left exposed, as frequent consumers of the nutrient-rich fruit know all too well. Behold: avocado art might just be the new latte art. It’s definitely only going to become more of a thing from here, as [Reddit went wild](https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/6glzoo/fresh%5Fhand%5Fcarved%5Favocado%5F2017/) for some carved avocado art over the weekend, thanks to an image of an intricately-carved work embedded in an avocado peel that was shared on the platform’s “Art” forum and credited to artist Daniele Barresi. As it turns out, there is quite a bit of verdant temporary sculpture floating around the internet beyond Barresi’s intaglio design, just waiting for its time in the sun. Check out some of the best that have surfaced recently, from “pixelated” avocados to delicate engravings making use of the fruit’s hard pit to attempts at recreating historically [famous works of art](http://time.com/4514386/van-gogh-stolen-recovered-artworks-paintings/item/the-scream-edvard-munch/) within the confines of a humble avocado. And of course, let’s not forget the [avocado lattes.](http://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/"},"headline":"This Eye-Catching Avocado Art Is Exactly as Crazy As It Sounds","datePublished":"2017-06-12T21:09:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:25.848Z","description":"Reddit and Instagram are going wild for eye-catching \"avocado art,\" works of art delicately engraved into the flesh of the green superfood.","url":"https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","viral","avocado"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4815432/avocado-art-intricate/","name":"This Eye-Catching Avocado Art Is Exactly as Crazy As It Sounds"}}]}] ```