Abigail Bustin
“The soup might have fallen onto his beard from his mouth… it is not our fear of oral incorporation that makes the soup disgusting to us but his failure to have properly orally incorporated it.” [1] (William I Miller, Anatomy of Disgust)
Disgust is a sensory related reaction which we may strongly respond too in different circumstances, it agitates both personal anxieties and social taboos. As in the soup on the man’s beard, it is not the food that is disgusting but rather the way it is out of place. My work concerns exposing the ordinarily concealed in disgust and the revolting. I incorporate materials that work in opposition to each other, materials that may not have a comfortable fit. Hair, commercial animal flesh and gold leaf are used together with traditional sculptural materials to antagonise a sense of disgust and to provoke questioning of the process, engaging the viewer.
Disgust is a sensory related reaction which we may strongly respond too in different circumstances, it agitates both personal anxieties and social taboos. As in the soup on the man’s beard, it is not the food that is disgusting but rather the way it is out of place. My work concerns exposing the ordinarily concealed in disgust and the revolting. I incorporate materials that work in opposition to each other, materials that may not have a comfortable fit. Hair, commercial animal flesh and gold leaf are used together with traditional sculptural materials to antagonise a sense of disgust and to provoke questioning of the process, engaging the viewer.