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Visual Art – Food Monster By Yum Tang
Visual Art – Food Monster By Yum Tang.
ABOUT FOOD MONSTER PROJECT
We consume food for survival. But when we consume food excessively, we treat food as the object of filling desire instead of hunger, and then it is food that is consuming us. Food turns us into uncontrollable monsters that devour food.
And this incident also made me think about some of the “you are what you eat” concept of self-cultivation, and the uncontrolled attempts to eat wild taste, and the use of food as an object to release emotions have made us food monsters. We are in a consumerist society, we are flooded with fast food, convenience food, refined food, microwave food … we are curious and try wild animals, we are emotional and overeating. Because food is readily available, we do not need to cherish food, and in turn, these industrialized foods have turned us into monsters that devour food.
The Food Monster series is my reverse thinking about food. I have always been taking pictures of the beauty of food. I have been thinking about the relationship between food and people since 2019. This Coronavirus incident has deepened my understanding of food. Research on the side of food danger. What I want to do is not to cause people to worry about food or panic, but to choose food and eat food more consciously. Don’t ignore the dangerous side of food while enjoying.
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