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Laura Favela
Tiny Dish explores the cartoonishness of appetite. Where fetishization of the human form in media is a familiar trope, I investigate the corresponding but oft-ignored fetishization of food shapes, colors, and texture. My work invokes feelings of nostalgia, amusement, confusion, and childlike hunger. The absurdity of the small scale invites the viewer to experience the outlandish relative enormity of their desire to consume. The viewer is transformed internally into a kind of monster, baby, or voracious cartoon cat. The miniaturization of bountiful, satiating food creates a feeling of tension and thwartedness: The awareness of a blissful sensorial promise left unfulfilled.
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