Mixed Media Meat
mixed media series that uses acrylic paint, collage, and found objects
2025
This series explores meat in various facets. It highlights the environmental consequences of the meat industry. The average American is detached from their food and the resources it requires. The problems come from the agricultural oligarchs. The subject of Perdon’t is a Perdue chicken wings package. The pattern on the bottom of the package replaces the original botanicals, farm, and cartoon chickens with factories and soy plants, pointing out their deceitful advertising. Humans are omnivores - this exhibition is not meant to shame the meat eater, but rather recontextualize meat within the meat industry and its environmental consequences.
Meat is also used to explore ideas of femininity, queerness, and humanity. In Membranes and Glands, the recipe steps of stuffing a roast and the meat wedding cake are questioning the expected life stages of getting married and breeding. The work takes a biocentric perspective [that all living beings are equal], juxtaposing the human form with sausages and ham.
In Polyp-Styrene, a hole in the canvas is patched. Within the rainbow string, there is a seashell lit by an LED. Visible mending is woven into the body of work symbolizing the hope of repairing the disconnect between humans, our food, and the environment.