Carnivor

2HEADED PIG- Refers to the many times
I saw the pig head being used as an logo or icon.















HANGING PIG- This refers to the constant
push to sell pork for way less than beef.


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I sketched these two after a three year period of working at a meat market. I would constantly see the faces of people when I was cutting meat. Especially with children. There was always a shock value behind animal flesh being cut or sawed. I guess it was a surreal sound, almost like the animal was being slaughtered on-the-spot. Almost everyday in the winter and fall people would come in wanting pig feet cut into small 1 inch square pieces.

There was also a fascination with ham, so much that the meat market would go through 10 pounds a day sometimes. Countless hours of cutting pork and the constant usage of a pig as a icon or logo for meat manufactures inspired these drawings. Hope not to offend any vegetarians or vegans out there. As for the "Live Free" and "Eat Pork" lettering on the first sketch, "Live Free" refers to a gallery I had plans in opening one day. Well the "Eat Pork" refers to how brainwash people were by the lower prices of pork meat and the constant image of the pig being feed to them. That is just my opinion from working behind the counter for more than two years.

-AR3