Pleased to Meat You, 8.5" x 11," appropriated and digitally manipulated image, aluminum metal print, 2017.
Human consumers are distanced from the other animals they consume in a myriad of ways: from language that renames animal’s corpses as “meat,” to the literal dismemberment of their bodies—which turns whole living beings into a dead mass of indistinguishable parts, and by the gleaming, sterile plastic that enshrouds their bodies on grocery store shelves.
Pleased to Meat You, removes the skin of human superiority to reveal the “meat,” we are all made of and is inspired by author Carol J. Adam’s theory of the absent referent. Anthropocentrism tells a tale of human superiority, but we are all really animals—inherently interconnected and vulnerable to destruction. This work is a precursor to the ongoing series, You Eat What You Are.
Pleased to Meat You, removes the skin of human superiority to reveal the “meat,” we are all made of and is inspired by author Carol J. Adam’s theory of the absent referent. Anthropocentrism tells a tale of human superiority, but we are all really animals—inherently interconnected and vulnerable to destruction. This work is a precursor to the ongoing series, You Eat What You Are.