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At nearly 7 feet tall, Snack Cake cuts an imposing figure. Cupping an enormous breast with one hand, tugging at the zipper that exposes her shaved crotch with the other, the big-eyed Amazon towers on knee-high platform boots as she stares seductively, her pink tongue protruding obscenely from pert lips. Sadly, Snack Cake is not real but a fiberglass and silicone construct from the twisted mind of Fort Lauderdale-based sculptor and painter Colin Christian.

"I've always been interested in erotica -- pinups, old Playboys, the work of [Alberto] Vargas," he notes, discussing his anatomically correct if quite exaggerated figures, which he started making in 1998 and have evolved into the current Snack Cake series. The sculptures, a couple of which grace the living room of the president of Nike, sell for anywhere between $3,000 and $10,000.

The London-born artist and his wife, lowbrow art sensation Sas Christian, moved to South Florida in 1992 and started a small business making latex fetishwear for specialty stores. Obviously, he still uses what he learned on that job, outfitting his figures with corsets, gloves and stiletto-heeled boots, all painstakingly crafted from fiberglass and lovingly colored with automotive paint. Christian builds his ladies from scratch, even the eyes, which are made from resin. Moist as a Snack Cake, the piece described above, marked his first attempt at using silicone, a material he says "looks and feels like real skin" and contrasts with the harder fiberglass in texture and finish.

"Snack Cake is a character I designed to get some kind of constant," he says, explaining how he places the voluptuous vixen in various scenarios. In the devilish Satan's Snack Cake, a wall-mounted piece, our heroine tempts Beelzebub himself as the flames of hell lick her nubile body. "She's the male fantasy taken to the extreme. I wanted to blur the lines between cartoons and real life, sort of like Jessica Rabbit." Anime provides another obvious influence in Christian's work, as the Japanese comic book art, with its wide-eyed waifs and campy sensibility, is often quite sexually charged.

Similar to sex dolls in some respects, Christian's sculptures are not "ready for action," though he says he was asked to whip up some that were. To equip his studio with the means to produce them, however, would have cost a fortune. While he certainly wants to titillate viewers, Christian also hopes to tickle them by going so ludicrously over the top. "She's supposed to be extreme," he says of the sumptuous Snack Cake. "She has every cliché thrown in. She always makes me giggle."

To see more of the artist's work, visit www.colinchristian.com.