Fruits and Veggies Express, coloured pencil o paper, 25 x 19 inches each, 2021
My recent works questions contemporary perceptions of the natural world from a settler perspective. Fruits and Veggies Express parodies the increasing sense of disconnect experienced by urbanites between the production and consumption of food. At the same time, it points to a societal yearning to reconnect to “simpler times” — a desire that is often misguided by commercial efforts to commodify staged interactions with the land. This diptych visualizes a fictional merging of industrial food production with mass tourism and imagines the absurdity of marketing a pseudo-natural fruits and veggies picking experience.