The Ears of Sundry Gods:

Desire & Regret

Title: A Hunger Artist (installation view), Medium: Apple, Artist: Donna Pardue

This piece refers to the title character in the Franz Kafka story, "A Hunger Artist," who starves himself as an art form. His drive for the ultimate perfection of his art is a convoluted mixture of self-destructive pride and compulsion.
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A Hunger Artist i(nstalled in the gallery) (seated figure carved from an apple)
© 2002 Donna Pardue