Writing
Have it Your Way
In the 1960’s, Roland Barthes proposed three general themes of food advertising, but he could never have anticipated the industry’s evolution and perversion. This essay is a Barthesian analysis of eroticism in CP+B’s Subservient Chicken for Burger King from 2004.
Wide Eyes and a Gaping Mouth
Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son has frequently been analyzed through a sociopolitical lens, which has lead art historians to interpret it as a criticism of Spanish rule and the cruelties of war in the early 1800’s. Given Goya’s body of work, I don’t disagree with these analyses, but in this essay I discuss the work through the lens of disgust and aversion strictly within the context of La Quinta del Sordo, the villa where Goya lived and on the walls of which he painted Saturn along with thirteen other pieces, collectively known as the Black Paintings.