Poultry Escapes Capitalism

2025 November #004. This fragment emerged from a deliberate rejection of beauty as the path to engagement. After recognizing I had fallen into aesthetically comfortable territory with romanticized decay, I pivoted toward genuine discomfort as artistic strategy. The hypothesis: can visceral provocation create more meaningful attention than visual pleasure?

The investigation centered on modern capitalism's grotesque contradictions, the sanitized distance between supermarket consumption and biological reality. I wanted to collapse that distance entirely, presenting celebration and commodificatio