Feast & Famine

Vianca Horta

Professor Cacoilo

Activist Interloper Pranksters

April 17, 2019

        The two art pieces I chose from the exhibition are What it Once Was by Tamara Kostianovsky and a chrome slice of pie.  Tamara used various fabrics and materials to recreate butchered parts.  Her intention is to bring forward the vulnerability of poverty, consumption and the compulsive needs of the body.  This piece and many of her other works are designed to confront viewers with the nutritional needs of the body. I feel that this piece best correlates to my semester project. My project was focused on the activism found in the paintings of sonograms. The exhibition encouraged me to look deeper.

       

          The absence of sonogram accessibility and fetal well being to absence of sustenance and nourishment in third world nations is at an all time high.  Children's hunger and fetal well being are threatened. Lack of healthy sustenance is a huge issue in creating nations. Without significant assets, numerous men, ladies and kids head to sleep hungry. Handling lack of healthy sustenance should be a need for everybody, particularly pregnant ladies. A lady's nourishments impacts both her wellbeing amid pregnancy and the strength of her child. Without legitimate consideration, she is defenseless to diseases and her infant's well being is in danger. Lack of healthy sustenance amid pregnancy can cause obliterating results. A woman that is undernourished is in danger of genuine medical problems for both herself and her infant. 

         In addition to the fact that it is impossible that her wholesome status will improve all through the pregnancy, however her body encounters extra demands because of the developing infant. At the point when her body is unfit to get or store enough supplements required to help incipient baby’s development, the cells may not partition appropriately, bringing about an opportunity that the embryo's advancement will be debilitated. This prompts the infant being conceived at a low birth weight, which frequently prompts serious psychological and formative shortfalls. An infant's organs create amid the initial five weeks of pregnancy. All together for the organs to develop appropriately, it is basic for ladies to be sound and have sustenance supplies promptly accessible. A lady's calorie intake needs to increase with pregnancy. An extra 150 calories for every day is expected to help the child in the initial three months of the pregnancy. In month four, the extra calories required increment to 300 every day. What's more, ladies must have the correct supplements in their eating regimen, for example, nourishments with folic corrosive, iron calcium, protein, nutrient B12, nutrient D and nutrient A. As per the World Food Program, half of every pregnant lady in creating nations are weak which causes around 110,000 passings amid labor for each year. Without enough supplements, a child is at higher danger of cerebrum harm, untimely birth, underdevelopment of organs, passing and that's just the beginning. 

        On the off chance that a baby ends up malnourished in the belly, the harm can be lasting. Improving sustenance is a venture that could spare the lives of women around the globe. It will also diminish the quantity of birth deformities and incapacities found in infants and youthful kids. In many creating nations, nourishment is fundamental to advancing a glad and solid way of life where no individual hits the sack hungry. Subjective advancement is affected by numerous variables, including nourishment. There is an expanding gathering of writing that proposes an association between improved sustenance and ideal cerebrum work. Supplements give building obstructs that assume a basic job in cell expansion. Ultrasound is an essential job in wellbeing advantages around the world, as it has took into account early conclusion of both fetal and maternal well being conditions, prompting an expanded survival rate, particularly on the planet's more unfortunate countries.

       I did not catch the name of the artist behind the chrome pie slice.  The chrome pie slice is on a very ordinary plate. It was honestly one of my favorite pieces in the exhibition.  I looked at it from a deeper perspective and found it correlates to a much deeper issue.  Here you see a chrome pie on a very plain plate. Chrome pie symbolizing the excessive wealth and resources in some places around the world. The ordinary plate symbolizing the lack of these resources and the excessive poverty and hunger in other regions.