There is a striking similarity between the surface qualities of meat and rock formation structures of the natural world. It is a strange comparison between two connected realities, where meat comes from animals raised from the land which grows the animals’ food, yet the bodies of the animals then become the landscape again in a circular pattern of life that also contains some element of randomness in the bizarre. Does this pattern have a place in nature? Where is the distinction between meat and the landscape and where does it end? Is the comparison too absurd to actually exist? Meat falls on plates and is a source of energy for bodies while camouflaging a landscape during a meal. The meat landscape is unexpected, yet it seems to fall in place as a landscape so perfectly that the eye can just make out the difference. Is it possible to turn a body (meat) into a landscape through a garment as well?
Upholstery fabrics, MX Immersion dyed cotton, and a synthetic mesh fabric re-dyed a deep red with disperse dye. All pieces were originally rectangles and then manipulated with pleating, tucking, and gathering.
Modeled by Megan Rojas and photographed by Josiah Gill
