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Lucy Sparrow


Hostess Twinkies


(From series The Sparrow Mart)


2018


Felt, fabric paint, thread





This artist touches on the most popular brands to emphasis the numbness of product marketing throughout the culture. In the picture, we see some classics, twinkies, Campbell's and coke. The monetization of food products grew so substantially throughout human nature, from trading spices and other agricultural specialties to creating products that aren’t naturally produced but rather by several chemical processes.





Shathony Exum


Ear Bites- Food Earrings


2016


paper-mache








Taco


2018


Papier-mache





This artwork purposely made an Americanized food look unappealing, most of the focus of the fast-food companies that sell food care about the appearance of these foods but not necessarily the nutritional value. The artist also has a video that is played side by side with the art piece that shows the very dull process of her making the distasteful looking taco. Making a statement that the focus of our food shouldn’t be the glamorization of it but rather the value of the food itself. Exum uses her platform to show that our enhanced focus of the superficial features in the food we consume is rather silly. The taco is purposely made to look unappealing, alongside with the poorly made banana earrings.

















23–46 Pieter Claesz STILL LIFE WITH TAZZA





Claresz’s Still Life with Tazza shows parts of a breakfast that would be normal for some people back in those times. The food looks natural, not glamorized or heightened. The stillness of this art piece has a calming effect on the audience. Outside of the obvious artistic difference between art pieces, the food represented in the painting by Claesz is much different than the other two paintings. The difference in time and cultures show the growing importance the general markets played in the consumption of basic human needs.





All in all, the experience at Feast and Famine showed me the ways culture can take real beauty from food. The nutrition is what’s most important in the food we eat, not the physical appearance and the commoditization of these food products.