Spilt Milk has become an art attack at this year's Art Farm Project, which is taking place at Middle Rocombe Farm this week. Some 5,000 litres of milk were delivered to the farm on Thursday and will be left to go off until the end of the art event for the unique art installation: Spilt Milk. Artist Martin White, a dairy hygiene inspector by day with Teignbridge Council, and fellow artist photographer Lisa Farris, will document what happens to the milk, which has been poured into a giant Petri dish until the art festival finishes on June 18. During the Art Farm Project the milk is on show, along with regular reports on the milks' bacterial state as it goes off and decays. 'What's happening is that it is evaporating and is going dry and leathery like paint,' said Liz Waugh, a spokesman for the Art Farm Project 2006. 'Martin said that at the moment the pearlised area of white, between the yellow surface are now less watery and have become the consistency of a custard tart. 'However, there is no smell. The question people seem to be asking now is where has the smell gone?'

Picture by Alan Craig