I remember + I forget
These images are of sea creatures that I have handled and
eaten recently. These images articulate
some aesthetic and political concerns of my own that are partly hidden behind
the idea of the still life picture.
When I first confronted my dinner with a camera, I was
really wrapped up in the sensual properties of these fish and looking, feeling
and smelling what was there in front of me. A taboo word – beauty – repeatedly
subverted my understanding of these photographs. Nonetheless; many fish later,
although I still have my lusty fascination with these animals my vision of them
has changed. Now, the fish all look like victims and I am just another consumer
with sharp teeth whose appetite helps to sustain an unsustainable fishing
industry.
The fish are beautiful, they are in trouble and they are
food.
