METABOLIZE
100% cotton
handwoven, dyed & bedazzled
2024
14¼” x 64” in
Until the early 2000s, it was thought that eating food, digesting, and creating energy/discarding waste was a process of food becoming a part of the metabolizer’s body. In recent studies with mice, scientists have found that rice consumed by mice exist in trace amounts outside of its digestive system for long periods of time. These studies have altered the way that we understand the metabolization of food, to be more of an exchange process, rather than an absorption process.
METABOLIZE is the beginning of a series of works exploring physical and cultural consumption and metabolism.
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cotton, wool
handwoven and painted
2024