GHERKIN
is it ART?
YES
It is.
image source: http://whatisthisfood.tumblr.com/post/66365453590/gherkin-is-a-term-generally-used-to-refer-to-a
There was at the Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC, and it featured a myriad of gherkins.
Yes - zee pickles.
A haunting, upright, righteous horde of 26 of them, titled - 'Selbstporträt als Gurken'.
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via http://jayveeaitch.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/artist-erwin-wurm.html
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Etymology
In our daily life, we use our language and words without thinking about. But here the etymology of the vegetables:
The word “cucumber” goes back on the Latin word “cucumis”. The Today’s word has been developed from the genitive form “cucumer” over the old French “cocombre” (modern French: “concombre”) to “cucumber”.
The word “gherkin” goes back to the Greek word angurion for “immature”, because the gherkins were harvested unripe.
via http://cucumberandgherkin.wordpress.com/2012/11/
