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Pig Boy - Dont play with your food
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wool, sculpture, textile
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height 50cm x 100cm x 80cm
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£400.00
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Materials: Merino and Norwegian wool, wire, cotton and manmade textiles, wood, fat, salt and sugar
Manufacturers trick and treat us. Takeaways and convenience foods are a consequence of hectic and indulgent lifestyles. Research showed that the working class were more at risk than any other group due to their eating habits.
Fat, Salt and Sugar in these quantities we all recognise as gross, but how much is hidden in our weekly groceries? Text labels on the trucks references attitudes, consumer products and health risks such as ‘Chocobeties’, ‘Snack and Pop’, Heart attack Multi-pack’ and ‘Bangers and Trash’. While the Train ‘Grossery Express’ is a play on words. Innocence of a toddler/piglet highlights the inheritance of future generation’s obesity and health problems.