Sugar Coated
2013
Corn Syrup, Bronze
4" x 2" x 1"
Tracy Somervell
Ypsilanti, MI
Two bronze apple halves are filled to overflowing with corn syrup eventually solidifying in a sickeningly sweet coating.
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
Two bronze apple halves are filled to overflowing with corn syrup eventually solidifying in a sickeningly sweet coating.
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.’
