As I researched the food crisis, I was disturbed by images from worldfocus.org. The poorest of Haiti’s poor eat a special kind of clay, a practice known as geophagy. The dirt patties are mixed with oil and salt or sugar and baked dry in the sun. I was spellbound by the volume, pattern and mass repetition of the dirt patties. It strongly influenced the shape and form of this installation.

The bowls are empty. . .sculpted with rice to express the hunger as a result of “dumping.” The rice is available and abundant, but barely accessible to those who depend on it. Each bowl is made with five servings of rice, what many families survive with on a daily basis. The split screen video shows the same video, one plays forward, the other in reverse. The rice is extracted from on side to the other, methodically, systematically over and over. There’s no reciprocity, only loss.

tomorrow I wake up hungry.