What does taste accomplish that vision cannot?

These images document a performance project where I ate meals that Coloradan prisoners were eating at the same time, by referencing their predetermined menu on the Colorado Department of Corrections website. After the meal I totaled the consumed calories, I left my house, and I walked as far as those specific calories would carry me. The paper napkin embroidered with the word “I” collects the residue of the initial act and then is turned into a flag that marks the end of the walk.

As a progression, the three centered images show different expressions of the same meal to acknowledge the changing relational complexity I share with prisoners. One being a collaboration with food photographer Rebecca Stumpf, the second being my private, homemade meal before a walking performance, and third, the meal being brought to a correctional facility, which I ate on the hood of my car before going inside to teach an art class.