The photo seems to have been taken at a grocery store. It’s full of colorful, heavily marketed products. Each product seems highly processed and branded, labelled, machine packaged. I personally have a connection to this photograph in a way, as I am often very conscious of the food I buy or am sold. I would rather go to a farmer’s market than face the aisles of a publix or sweetbay. This image, to me, shows the bastardizing of nutrition, the perversion of food but most of all I see it as retroactive progress in the sense that these foods are made plentiful and available en masse. The fact they these foods are so easily available is wonderfully progressive, save for the fact that they are retroactive in the sense that they are mostly void of a reliable spectrum of nutrition. I’d be willing to bet that 90% of the food in this picture has some form of corn in the ingredient list, corn being an important food in it’s natural state, but little more than empty sugar carbs in most processed forms. Narratively, the photo seems to be taken after a day of shopping and picking by consumers. The aisles will likely be sorted and levelled progressively throughout the week or all at once after hours. This photo, to me, offers a look at the big picture, the majority of what we are sold and buy as food as compared to the fresh food we are offered. This photo says, look what kind of food business the USDA and FDA are nurturing and enabling to thrive through companies like Monsanto and Nestle.
