She’s also noted a growth of pie artists in her community, naming Nokx Majozi, Kate McDermott and Arlene Lott as friends and inspirations in the pie-making space. It’s an amazing place to meet new people and workshop ideas and exchange knowledge with people.”Ĭlark-Bojin says she’s made many friends on the platform, some who she’s met IRL. “Whenever I post I get really meaningful conversations and people are very lovely. “The communities like r/food and r/baking that I’m a part of, they’re very community-oriented,” she adds. “It’s very much like watercolor painting.” For the fine details that someone can’t really stencil, like detail around the eyes, hair or stubble, she hand paints the pies with an emulsifier like vanilla extract or vodka mixed with brown gel food coloring. “Once I’ve got that as a base, I’ll use egg white and cinnamon to press in and then it gets a bit darker in the oven,” she says. She starts by creating a template in Photoshop, then hand drawing to make sure the stencil will work in dough, delineating darker sections from lighter ones.
“It’s not as simple as just taking a photograph and pressing a button,” she says. If you’re wondering how the heck any of this is possible, you’re not alone. “Why not pies?”Ĭlark-Bojin says that her pies are 100% edible - and in fact, on her TikTok and elsewhere, she often slices into her creations on camera and takes a bite, proving they are. “Back in 2016, I found out for the first time that pie art wasn’t a thing that people did, and I found that very strange because of so many gorgeous examples of cake art, cookie art, waffle art, pancake art and all this stuff,” she said. The episode in question, titled “ Long Long Time,” received widespread praise for its deeply moving portrayal of Frank (Murray Bartlett) and Bill (Nick Offerman), two survivalists who meet by chance and fall in love, including one pivotal scene involving strawberries.Ĭlark-Bojin’s post has gone viral on multiple social media platforms, including on Reddit with more than 79,000 upvotes, tens of thousands of views and likes on TikTok and on Instagram, where the piemaker extraordinaire received love from both of her award-winning subjects in the comments section.Ĭlark-Bojin's Lorax-themed pie. “I baked a ‘Last of Us’ themed strawberry pie for Valentine’s Day,” reads the post by Clark-Bojin, which has also quoted a line from the third episode of the popular apocalyptic television show. Posted in the subreddit r/MadeMeSmile, the strawberry pie art was inspired by a particularly poignant episode of the hit HBO show “ The Last of Us” and went viral in r/baking, r/food and other subreddits, too. 13, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, who goes by u/ThePieous on Reddit, posted her latest creation: a scroll-stoppingly beautiful pie that is as much three-dimensional painting as it is dessert. Pablo Picasso once said, “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” Never was that more true for one true artist, who has found her perfect medium in manipulating buttery dough and fruity fillings.
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