taken from the idea of food photography and food styling from high gloss magazines, I wanted to take these domestic and wholesome references and make them go awry. In all actuality these magazines evoke lust, pleasure, and "original" sin.
Food photography 2001 - 2006
Eating My Demons Series (Banana peel skulls)
2002
Archival Pigment Print
40" X 30 101cm X 76 edition of 7
2002
Archival Pigment Print
40" X 30 101cm X 76 edition of 7
Banana peels were flattened into a grid and skulls that were traced from a flemish still life painting were cut out from the peels. Skulls were switched with each other, much like offset printing techniques. Photographs were taken three times a day as banana peels decayed.
All Day All Nite Sucker
2003
Archival Pigment Print
13" X 17 33cm X 43 edition of 7
2003
Archival Pigment Print
13" X 17 33cm X 43 edition of 7
Skull Lollipops that were given out in Mexico during the "Day of the Dead festival were left in my studio for two years to undergo differing climate changes. The second summer they were photographed melting much like blood.