Final Project - Jun Ogawa

Animals and what we eat

            There are thousands of animals in this world. Each of them have special features, and they are beautiful. Human beings and animals have a deep relationship. Some people have animals as a pet, and some people used to use the horse as a means of transportation in the past. However, the most important fact of our relationship is that we eat animals. Eating is an essential part of living. We must kill animals to eat them. We love animals, but at the same time we kill them. It’s sort of an opposite action, so in this project, I wanted to put this contradiction, and the thing that we should appreciate the fact that we can eat. In my picture, I took some photographs of cow and chicken because there are many of them in Ephraim. There are basically three concepts: photographs of animal itself (cow and chicken), photographs of animal and human, and photographs of food. I took some pictures of fork, knife and meat with animals because I wanted to imply the cruelty. In addition, since it was outside, and animals have really characteristic colors, I paid attention to the tone of color. I tried to emphasize the beauty of animals and nations in terms of color. I want people who see this picture to appreciate the fact that we can eat. We continue to eat food today, tomorrow, and forever.