Cola Sea

Artist Barbara Ciurej American, born 1956

Artist Lindsay Lochman American, born 1952

Date2013

Mediumpigment print on paper

Dimensionsimage: 45.7 × 55.9 cm (18 × 22 in.)
sheet: 61 × 71.1 cm (24 × 28 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineDouglas Cox and Edward Osowski Fund for Photography

Object number2017.24

Label TextProcessed Views is an ongoing, multimedia project that investigates the state of American fast food production. According to Ciurej & Lochman, this body of work “interprets the frontier of industrial food production [and the] seductive and alarming intersection of nature and technology.” Each photograph in the series replicates a work by Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), a pioneering photographer known for his majestic large-format landscapes of the American West.
Ciurej and Lochman’s sugary reconstructions of Watkins’s breathtaking landscapes initially appear humorous. Upon closer investigation, however, they are a biting commentary on consumerism and the American diet. In Cola Sea, for example, the birds have been replaced with decaying teeth, a metaphor for fast food’s destructive impact on human and environmental health.ProvenancePurchased from the artists with funds gifted by Edward Osowski.

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