My idea is to try to eat local for 30 days, or perhaps 60 (if Tehching Hsieh can go a whole year). The point is to attempt an experiment in living the beliefs I have been advocating. Beyond advocacy I am interested in "performing/participating" in this idea of local living, which has become so trendy in popular culture. I say "performing/participating" because I think that, on one hand, I am participating in the idealism of local living, but also performing this idea of "going green" that has been made so popular by commercial culture.

I'm an artist trying to walk the talk of local eating for 60 days. I am performing and living local simultaneously as my project seeps into every corner of my life. Experiencing while aesthetically translating. I'm having conversations and hoping to engage those around me - physically and virtually.

I’m really interested in what happens when well-fed, economically safe folk are able to realize that eating is primal. When we go from abstractly knowing it to deeply knowing it, for such an understanding is potentially life changing. In the U.S., about 50 million people are considered “food insecure,” many of them children. For we lucky folks who are not hungry, learning this primalness in adulthood can change us not only in culinary ways, but also spiritually, politically,environmentally. It may prompt us to change jobs, grow vegetables, volunteer more.

Reflection II consists of two cast iron sculptures at approximately 6’3” tall intended to stand on either side of a glass wall, appearing as a mirror image of itself. The piece will be installed with one figure inside and the other outside the Museum’s first floor lobby, so visitors may interact with the piece when they enter. This installation is symbolic of DeCordova’s commitment to presenting sculpture in the Park, as well as in the galleries. This sculpture, part of an edition of three with an artist’s proof, is the only one in a public collection.

Claire Beckett (MassArt), Anna Krachey (SMFA), S. Billie Mandle (MassArt), Yamini Nayar (RISD), Kristine Potter (Yale), Irina Rozovsky (Tufts, MassArt), Sasha Rudensky (Wesleyan, Yale), and Victoria Sambunaris (Yale).