GOUACHES. n#4. Vegetable
garden. 2001.
Beijing. Fall 2001. Gouache on paper. 55 x 80 cm.
In the Western world and the big cities of the developing world, what
people eat nowadays comes from tin cans, plastic bags of frozen foods
and other plastic bags of junk that have been produced in huge
agribusiness factories controled by a handfull of multinational
corporations. Statistics show us that these last 50 years
more
and more of us are fattening, they call that rampant obesity. It is as
a kind of collective punishment for the growing distance between
ourselves and the origin of what we eat.
Vegetable garden is about my memory of the pleasure experienced with
gardening when health and beauty were doing fine before the
agribusiness fell into the claws of big capital.