“You Are What You Eat”

New York, 2001
Photographs
Dimensions variable

“You are what you eat.”
—Brillat-Severin

Just like the quote by Brillat-Severin that gives the name to this work, this is who I was during the year 2001. This project is a composite image of more than 2000 digital pictures taken from January 1 to December 31, 2001. These are not necessarily well composed or meticulously lit images; these are visual snapshots in chronological order that as a whole present a kind of self-portrait of this period.

Apart from the basic act of documenting everything I ate and drank (except glasses of water), I’m particularly interested in how these food images interact with the viewer, how the viewer experiences the artwork creating a dialog and raising fundamental questions about how food and its related issues define many aspects of our lives.