Self Preservation – Are we living longer now because we eat more preservatives?
45″ x 35″ x 4″
Colored Paper
1997

Self Preservation: 
Are we living longer now because we eat more Preservatives?

What’s Going On?

These words of a popular Marvin Gaye song are meant to parody the practices of today, not to represent prudence.

In similar fashion, the Artist asks, “Are we living longer now because of preservatives?”

Could this be reminiscent of the pub’s favorite line promoting the preservative effects of liquor on the drinker’s unsuspecting liver?…… or steroid’s magnificent development of our bodies, while killing us softly?

He couldn’t have something against those wonderful genetically engineered tomatoes that we eat in an attempt to keep healthy.

Pasteurized, Homogenized, Sugar Free, Low fat, Low Calorie, Diet Rite, Dark Meat, White Meat, No Meat, Vegetarian, Pesco-Vegetarian, …