During the period of isolation food waste in the UK increased, as did the use of food banks and requests for emergency food parcels. There is now a chance to reflect, reconnect with a moral and environmental conscience and change attitudes towards a more progressive way of thinking.
Every year globally, 1.4bn hectares of land is used to grow food that is wasted. That’s an area larger than China.
Larger than China is not only a documentation of excess, it asks questions about familiarity, challenging an ever-evolving relationship with food. The series plays with ideas surrounding perception, exploring the tension between what we see, what we need, and what we want. It looks to our social conscience and objects to the transient nature of our gains over others' needs. The work reflects upon the lasting impact of the human relationship with consumption, our readiness to detach and abstract time and scale in an attempt to balance an uneasy and ongoing narrative of wastefulness.
