THE BEAUTY OF CARVING A WATERMELON

There are two types of watermelon carvings: the hollowed-out jack-o’ lantern type of carvings and watermelon skin carvings like the one on the right. The latter type requires a little more skill, but the result is usually a beautiful work of watermelon art that could be displayed in the fruit-sculpting wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unfortunately, the Met doesn’t have a fruit-sculpting wing, even though I’ve sent them multiple letters suggesting the idea and delivered a petition signed by nine people. If they ever come to their senses and add a display of watermelon art to their collection, they might want to start with a few works from Vid Nikolic.

In the five-minute video below, Vid shows us how to carve a watermelon dahlia. He makes it look easy mainly because, for him, it is easy! For me, it would take three-and-a-half days and the dahlia wouldn’t look anything like the one he made.

Watermelon dalia from Vid Nikolic on Vimeo.