I wanted to take an icon so
powerful that I believed I could
fool almost everyone with it. The
skull as a motif is almost
without precedent and virtually
universal. I can't remember
any period in history that hasn't,
at some point anyway,
used it to describe some political
point or other. 'EAT ME'

Burning the midnight oil, as many of us do, images are created that may or may not go forward to another stage.

In-Progress is where you may find these beginnings...or ends?

Sometimes, if there is one, the purpose of the image may be explained? It may well be a reaction to the NEWS of the DAY; just a personal reaction.

The images

Carol Baker

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In this instance I wanted to use it to bring emphasis to the current crisis over BSE. The insipid protein altering disease (although strictly speaking it isn't) that changes the composition of the brain.

It brings into question how we can manipulate organic systems into producing unexpected results. A string of events, which on face value anyway, would not seem able to produce anything out of the ordinary. Especially at a time when we are meddling with genetic engineering, and are told that 'science' has worked out all the possible problems and implications. Surely it would not seem possible for something so mechanically simple as BSE to occur .

However, it would seem that one thing can be transformed into another with frightening simplicity! An event as non technical as mealy grinding up animal matter and then feeding it back to herbivores would seem to present no real cause for alarm. I mean protein is just protein yes?

Apparently not.

'Eat me', is an attempt to recreate such an obvious simplicity.

I needed to say it: PBG'97