Food Art Brainstorm

Food Brainstorm

Food, rotting food (spoilage), the rot of society, good things turn bad, food in a cake stand so it can rot but I can see it and paint it.

the decay of functionality and health, mold, decay, fuzzy mold, slime, gelatinous, the world is slowly decaying - human activity is slowly decaying into a self-consuming end.  We see but we are paralyzed by our habits, by our expectations.  We see it rot but we don't grow more, we don't prune off the dead, we sit and hope for someone else to save us, yet it is we who created the problem - and are the answer. Rotting fruit, maggots on meat, Vanitas paintings.  Include more items, not just one rotting piece of food.
 
Include insects and animals.  Include human remains - stay away from zombies.
Include?:
- Molecular consumers: bacteria (putrefaction), enzymes, fungi.
- Insect consumers: ants, flesh flies, green bottle flies, carrion beetles, mites
- Animal consumers: coyote, rats, crows, vultures, wolves, foxes

Seven deadly sins:  pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.
Gluttony:
Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of six ways to commit gluttony, comprising:

• Praepropere – eating too soon
• Laute – eating too expensively
• Nimis – eating too much
• Ardenter – eating too eagerly
• Studiose – eating too daintily
• Forente – eating wildly 

Sidebar: Sloth has also been defined as a failure to do things that one should do. By this definition, evil exists when good men fail to act.

Food Imitation:
Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwiches are made to look like peanuts. processed food is made to look like unprocessed food. non-digestable ingredients are put into items that make them look edible. corn syrup is corn processed to the point of being cancerous. Plastic chips in our toothpaste that cannot be digested or broken down in the natural environment. Would you eat peanuts?  Would you eat metal nuts? What if each was given to you and shared as food - from day one. Why do we believe what isn't food is food?  Packaging?  GMO soybeans being shown to cause smaller offspring and alters mother's milk. Why do we believe changed food is better food - especially when it is changed in a way that can only be done by a large food company.  Ever hear of your neighbor radiating their food? DO you have your grandmother's corn syrup recipe? We create rot from within, gladly swallowing the change agent as if it was a delicacy.  Food covered with a dusting of narcotics - sugar coated... everything. Food surfaces: glazed, powdered, basted, browned,

Fake food: rubber chickens, cheese slices that aren't even called cheese but cheese product , glued meat (transglutaminase), imitation crab meat made from pollock and red dye, maple syrup that is corn syrup with maple flavoring.

We are what we eat.