Decay Project Artist Statement

The decay of humans has always seemed the most interesting sort of decay to me, because it is inevitable and no one can escape it. But once the humanoid characteristics, there really isn't anything to define us from any other rotting being. No matter what we do, we always end up as just rotten meat, decaying into nothing. I wanted to translate this incredibly dark and depressing idea through the use of meat shaped like the heart organ, the organ most associated with giving us life, and showing it turning black and even having a few maggots crawling around. Although I then traced the steps backwards to show life is still possible, even though our end is set. My aim is not to make the viewer cringe and spiral into an existential crisis, but rather to remind people that they aren't as superior as they inherently believe, as they accept as fact, and that death is not the be-all end-all of everything. Life goes on after a piece of meat rotting, and life goes on after a human rotting, terrible phrasing aside.