Dinner With Piggy
Dinner with Piggy examines the moral dissonance that accompanies consumption and complicity. The man at the table embodies gluttony, a motif rich with abject imagery and aligned with both Carroll’s and Kristeva’s analyses of disgust. The piece considers how indulgence and denial intertwine: the very act of feeding becomes an allegory for intellectual and ethical decay.
The pursuit of moral redemption collapsing under the weight of its own appetite.
A portrait of intellectual consumption gone wrong. Beneath its theatrical surface runs a meditation on the persistence of belief and denial.
The man lobotomizes himself and feeds his brain to Piggy, a gesture suggesting the transfer of knowledge and the inversion of mastery. What once signified human superiority becomes an emblem of surrender, flesh and intellect merge in a single grotesque act.
Rats, rats, rats…
Around them, smaller creatures, rats, gather to consume the remains. Their improvised tools, ladders constructed from the man’s severed fingers, allow them to reach what was once inaccessible. As the rats consume human sentience, they begin to devise more efficient ways to access it, echoing the absurdity of human invention when detached from empathy.