GLUTTONY: A practice-research comic-in-progress
GLUTTONY: A practice-research comic-in-progress
Gluttony (along with lust and greed, three of the seven deadly sins which carry the same motivation) is a desire for more. More flavour, more tastes, more on the tongue, in the belly, in the gut. More beyond sufficiency, beyond satiety, beyond sense. My current comic-in progress is a tongue-in-cheek exercise in collaging food images as landscape (cliché alert!) to serve as a commentary on gluttony and obesity, but also about unchecked greed on a personal, public, and planetary level. It is a short cautionary tale for our time of an Adam and Eve couple starting out in a garden of Eden of natural foods who, seduced by sweetness then spices and processed foods, embark on a romp through food landscapes of ever-increasing culinary debauchery (among other things) towards a saucy, possibly sticky, end. In this practitioner paper/comic playing with concepts of scale, I am using photo-collages with analogue cut outs from printed materials composited and manipulated digitally, with hand-drawn characters in a Ligne Claire style. Using external and internal landscapes of food as interchangeable visual elements, I want to explore that fine line between the humorous and the offensive, the sweet and the sour, the tasty and the unpalatable.
