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Questionable Foods
Here’s an online exhibition of Questionable Foods: Phillips Museum of Art
After a decade of creating botanical subject matter in glass, I became aware of GMOs, which launched much learning about food and issues surrounding the food industry – the argued effects of GMOs and pesticides, the debilitating effects of sugar and over-processing of foods, political and monetary conflicts throughout the food industry, treatment of animals, effects of food production on the environment, and the daunting conundrum of feeding and sustaining nearly 8 billion people.
I first brought these issues into my work by cutting and sewing soda cans into fruits and placing them on glass branches. The work has evolved into some works that don’t include glass at all.
I particularly like working with food boxes and actual food in some pieces, allowing them to speak in their own voices. Glass is a perfect foil to these materials in that I can impart it with a variety of appearances, as well as create interiors with it.
With this work, I want to urge viewers (myself included!) to more carefully consider what we’re eating, what’s being called food, and to make healthier choices. And I want to call out food manufacturers to do better.