So Called Organic, 2023
Description :
So Called Organic! uses humor and contradiction to question the increasingly marketable idea of what is “natural.” A cobra emerges from and coils around an aluminum beverage can, bringing an organic living form into direct contact with a mass-produced industrial object. The unlikely hybrid blurs the distinction between nature and manufacture, suggesting how contemporary consumer culture frequently packages, labels, and sells products through claims of purity, health, and environmental responsibility. The title deliberately introduces skepticism, asking whether the things presented to us as organic or natural remain so once they are processed, packaged, branded, and consumed.
