The Desert Inside my Body

This project was done under KHOJ’s In context: Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition III Residency.

Food’s effect on the body is not only physical or nutritional but emotional as well. I am exploring the experience of emotional eating and people’s understanding of their relationship with food. I am interested in the stories of individuals where eating habits have been influenced by emotions and insecurities. Stories where insecurities around the shape and size of the body have determined the eating process.

This project started as an attempt in understanding the urban food chain and the ecosystems behind it. What came forth was the disconnect between the soil and bodies. Here seeds grow in isolation from the soil and our bodies end up consuming mere products without identifying the root of the food. My research has grown to investigate the disconnects within the ecosystem, through the isolated body parts within ourselves.