04/09/2021
This piece, from the Veggies From My Garden Series, already has a bid on it. Bidding is open through Sunday, April 11 at noon. The Live Auction is Saturday, April 10 at 8pm: https://www.bidsquare.com/auction-house/massachusetts-college-of-art-and-design-foundation 100% of the sale goes to student scholarships. Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Excerpts from my artist statement: This body of work is an exploration of beauty as an antidote for personal and political crisis. Personally, the work is born out of a need and desire for a deep and personal connection to the earth. These vegetables, all grown in my own garden, are portraits created out of a love of the experience and the tradition of the home garden. Growing our own food has innumerable benefits personally, environmentally, socially, and politically, with greater nutrition, less carbon footprints, family and community connection, and engagement, and education. We are living in a time when many people relate to food as processed items that come out of boxes, and more than 100 million people in our country have diabetes and at least a quarter of those people don’t know they have it. The capitalist-driven food industry supports dysfunctional relationships with many types of food while the governing bodies, rather than focusing on the well-being of citizens, are controlled and bought by the food lobbies. Gardening during the time of CoVid, during political division and upheaval, and while recovering from a dysfunctional, authoritarian administration, brings all of these issues into sharper focus. As we stay at home, it is an important time to invest in family, love of the earth, and love our own bodies.
273. ZOE PERRY-WOOD '81 Carrot Bunch, Late Fall, 2019, Edition 1 of 7 Archival Pigment Print 24.5
