Insight: ",therefore I am"

I think a lot about how consumerist behavior is used to create a sense of self. My boyfriend, a bon vivant / bro type, was the subject of this piece. As a great connoisseur of junk food and cheap beer, I wanted to create a portrait that iterated "you are what you eat". As you can see, I have a Cheeto entering the figure's mouth, which then becomes part of himself.

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