gnawing
The relationship between what we eat and how it makes us feel is sometimes hidden. “Gnawing” is a documentation of my attempt to eat healthier, using baby carrots as the symbol of a wholesome food. Taking small and measured bites, the video focuses on the mouth, making the action of eating seem incredibly physical and intimate. Each carrot is left with the marks of my bites, showing the intimacy of the action and the choice to eat only a little.
The viewer becomes a voyeur into the personal actions and decisions that people make every day regarding diet and food choice that is sometimes not fully weighed. While the video loops, the pile of carefully bitten and gnawed carrots becomes an object for contemplation and references my physical body, a nod to the idea that I want to effect an observable change by eating small, sensible bites of food.
