NICOLETTE DASKALAKIS
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  • FILM [Narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • FILM [Art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • SCULPTURE + 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • dis-moi que je ne suis pas en feu
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
    • album covers
  • COMMERCIAL
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
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nicolette daskalakis
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Eat Me ​(2014)
"Eat Me" combines the high-gloss, commercial look of advertising with the classic tradition of still life to comment on the fabrication and commercialization of increasingly unnatural, mass-produced food products. 

Still life painting traditionally allowed for something fleeting (a vase of flowers, a bowl of fruit) to live on within the canvas. In contrast, the subjects of these tableaus (jelly beans, gummy candies, processed cakes) have a seemingly infinite shelf life. Furthermore, the traditional, still life medium of painting has been replaced by the instantaneous tools of digital, studio-lit photography to visually communicate a growing, consumerist demand for instantaneous gratification and colorful, factory-perfect products. These aesthetically pleasing, saturated images harbor a darker reality: our society's mass production and consumption of factory-created food products and sweets. ​
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  • home
  • FILM [Narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • FILM [Art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • SCULPTURE + 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • dis-moi que je ne suis pas en feu
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
    • album covers
  • COMMERCIAL
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • YOUTUBE
  • POETRY
    • Books
    • Poems
    • Upcoming Readings
  • CV
  • about
  • contact