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Yes it’s true. Believe it or not, this amazing & wonderful chandelier is actually made up of some thousand colored gummy bears. And the other picture showing a classy pair of shoes below here, is also made up of chewing gum. About Chewing-gum was introduced by American soldiers with the end of World war -II, together with jeans, nylon, stocking and boggie-woggie. Its association with a state of euphoria of change and carefree youthfulness some how carried on in the following decades. Origin Nothing much is known about the origin & history of using chewing gum as an sculpturing material. The earliest references that are available in Wikki mention about a lady Hannah Wilke, who tried using chewing gum, in 1980s as a sculpturing medium for her obscene & vulgar portraits. Later innovative artists like Maurizio Savini (1962) whose chewing gum sculptures