Pacify
2014
Bronze
11" x 6"
Tracy Somervell
Ypsilanti, MI
A bronze syrup bottle is modified with a pacifier fixed to the top.
My work is a commentary on American society’s idealization of sugar and fatty foods, spiraling the obesity and diabetes epidemic that is largely onset by abuse of these foods yet is a widely socially acceptable addiction many people suffer from. My work serves as a personal narrative to rectify my own unhealthy relationship with food, sugar and my oral fixation with candy, sweets and other foods deemed ‘unhealthy’ or ‘sinful.’
Ypsilanti, MI
A bronze syrup bottle is modified with a pacifier fixed to the top.
My work is a commentary on American society’s idealization of sugar and fatty foods, spiraling the obesity and diabetes epidemic that is largely onset by abuse of these foods yet is a widely socially acceptable addiction many people suffer from. My work serves as a personal narrative to rectify my own unhealthy relationship with food, sugar and my oral fixation with candy, sweets and other foods deemed ‘unhealthy’ or ‘sinful.’
