How Does J. Mccracken Use Geophagy?

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In this sculpture presented by J.J McCracken, he tries to represent through nine-clay covered models in with a non-melodic sound coming from the background in the exhibit in Philadelphia called the Painted Bride Arts Center. This mood is portrayed in order to make a discomforted feeling when someone visits the scenery to show the brutal circumstances these people had to face. In this piece, McCracken is trying to convey in countries or places with scarcity of food or food shortage, many of the citizens and human beings in the country have to result into using geophagy. Geophagy is defined as the practice of eating the earth because there is not enough food in an area to sustain the total population. By painting his artwork into different shades

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