Etching , ” Your sweet chocolate factory “, November 2011
In this etching:
The pilgrims are returning from the chocolate factory , they are vomiting in a procession, poisoned by the sweets they have been gorging on. The figures in the center : a lady in a cake and an orgy of sexual beasts . A headless naked female torso exposing the chocolates that fill her stomach. The pig at the front is me as a child : my parents took a really eerie photograph of me at 5 years old naked in a stark corridor -wearing a pig mask .( I also met the love of my life, while I was disguised as a pig at his party) I feel like a pig when i see chocolate , I become enslaved by desire to eat it.
Cacao - the Mayans’ food of the gods - corrupted by sugar and milk , has become a sickly substance produced by an exploitative industry that used to have Quaker values ( Cadburys)
Note to self on the etching: For the chocolate colour the inks were a mix of prussian blue, red and yellow, oil and I added talk when it became too gooey . Works well in paynes grey too.
