Embryonic Egg Bowl

Several people have the experience of going vegetarian or vegan after seeing factory farming videos. For me personally, the egg and dairy industries and culling of baby animals are especially hard to watch. But then wait a day or two and those thoughts are gone and we’re back to eating whatever we like.

Nobody wants to watch factory farming videos every day to continuously remind themselves that they should feel guilty for eating animal products. Since we eat off of pottery, the images from farming should be directly on what we eat from so we’re aware of what we’re eating. Animal products are so far removed from their source we’re not thinking about its origins at all—to us the egg is a potential omelet, not a potential embryo.

This was early into nerikomi making, and I want to make more realistic looking images in my work in the future.