I have this limited-edition lithograph of 'Meat Girl' hanging on the wall in my kitchen, which draws many comments from visitors, especially the vegetarians. I've long enjoyed his darkly macabre, surreal work, for its cartoonish realism. But you don't have to take my word for it...
Why I paint meat.
by Mark Ryden
“I’ve been asked over and over why I paint meat? I suppose I have to admit one of the reasons I like to paint meat is because people do wonder about it so much. We are creatures of pure energy and “Meat” is the element that keeps us here. I think about how “Meat” was once part of a beautiful living creature that has then become an inanimate “substance” that we treat with little regard or awareness of what it once was.
It was once alive.
Just like T-rex, I myself am a passionate meat-eater. I feel that the consumption of animal flesh is a natural primal instinct just like sex and making paintings. But there is that paradox of knowing how that scrumptious porterhouse made it to my dinner plate. We have lost any kind of reverence for this. It would be interesting if people would have to kill an animal themselves before they earned the right to eat it."
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