“Ham” by Robert W. Walker
Know your food!
I got the idea for this piece from a stupid girl.
She was telling me how she was mad at her boyfriend for buying “live” goldfish for their pet turtle, instead of turtle food… I asked her what she thought the turtle food was made of…
I spent every summer on my Grandma and Grandpa’s farm. I watched my grandpa slice the balls off of baby pigs, while the family dog waited hungrily at his feet for the discarded red jewels… I helped my grandpa put these little black rubber bands around young male cows nuts, that way in a few weeks they shrivel up and fall off making them steers…
My grandparents put me to work, fixing fence post, weeding the garden, bailing hay, weeding, feeding chickens, weeding, planting… and weeding….
I used to feel bad for the animals when they where slaughtered, I learned early on, not to name the steers… My grand parents will not eat meat from the store, there animals eat grass and corn, they graze freely on over 200 acres of rolling green hills… I know now that his animals are VERY well taken care of, and in a way lucky.
I haven’t ate meat for over 16 years, and never will again… I think if you do eat meat you should familiarize yourself with where meat from the store comes from… Wake up! Meat doesn’t come from a package!
Here is a link to a video of how the animals you eat are treated, if you eat meat you should watch the whole thing, You owe it to yourself!
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
ABOUT THE PIECE;
Ham is a real pigs head that I dehydrated in my oven for over 2 months… imagine the smell… The eyes were built back up using glass and polymer clay… Ham was painted with my oil paints… and is coated in over 30 coats of resin!
Ham will last the ages, don’t worry about decomposition, he’s in it for the long hall… This is a one of a kind piece of art that will be talked about by every one…
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February 25th, 2010 at 11:19 am
I dunno… Isn’t that a bit… ironic? “I don’t eat meat, I JUST CHOP OFF PIGS HEADS TO EXPLOIT THEM SO I CAN GET MORE DRUGGZZ. I mean, my art.”
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February 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am
I’m kind of hungry now.
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February 25th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Words fail.
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February 25th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I agree with tiph up there, whole hog… I mean, wholeheartedly. Also, what kind of a sicko is totally cool with an animal head hanging out in his oven for 2 MONTHS??!?!
February 25th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
….i’m not hungry anymore.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Oh, well. As long as I don’t have to worry about my art decomposing. Sign me up! Or maybe not. Weird.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I want Ham at the end of a ‘long hall’ while I stay at the other.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
For some reason all I can think about is “Carrie” for some reason.
I’m going to bathe in bleach now.
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February 25th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
And they got the idea for the “Look At This F#ing Hipster” from looking at stupid boys like you.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
So, the guy won’t eat meat, but he is okay with cooking a pig’s head in his oven for two months? Isn’t that even more disrespectful to the dead animal?
Is it just me, or is anyone else really annoyed when these “artists” make real artists seem like a bunch of incompetent, crazy people because of the things they create and the stories they tell about them?
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February 25th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Wow. He thinks the girl is stupid for not knowing where meat comes from? He is the MOST STUPID for dehydrating a pig’s head in his oven for two months!!!
February 26th, 2010 at 4:02 am
That is some macabre sh*t. Sure buddy, let me give you $2500. I would love to help you realize your dream of becoming “Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s” Leather-face. Warm and fuzzy feelings all over.
February 26th, 2010 at 5:58 am
I think this guy saw the movie “Lord of the Flies” a little too often…
oink, oink!
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February 26th, 2010 at 11:27 am
He couldn’t have created something similar from a non-meat product like, oh, clay or paper mache’?
February 26th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Not much effort going into this “art” here really. Dip anything in resin a few times and it can be art.
I’m more horrified at the grammar.