>dairy farmers 002
> brendon marczan, 2010
> original artwork
> 297mm wide x 420mm high (unframed)
> ink + marker on paper
fat is bad in our snappy-pap world. it’s such a sin to be anything but ultra-thin – even schoolgirls and boys diet and detox. but when I was young, fat was fine. i drank my milk to be big and strong and I didn’t ask for skim, low-fat or light. and who had any idea what soy was? Dairy Farmers full cream milk was my staple. it was everywhere – at breakfast, at lunch, in tea after dinner. i bought a 600mL carton on the way home from primary school and chugged it down as i planned my next encounter with Sonic the Hedgehog. sometimes mum would add some vanilla essence just to jazz it up.
but when I entered café society, everything seemed to change. i was 16 and i knew so little. friends made coffee orders that i barely understood. low-fat, no-fat, skimmed, super and soy. milk was so much more than the cows brought home and having coffee with full cream milk was almost obscene! all the girls loved a skinny latte. these days, even a real-live dairy farmer is likely to ask for low-fat when he’s in town. oh, the irony!
now i see the mums and dads passing on their dairy fetishes to kids who know no better. have your Coke and your half-dozen sausages, Pepsi, Sprite and a bag of lollies, but avoid that full-fat dairy-death! so where does all the fat go? is there a creamy lake somewhere south of Illawarra? if there is, i want to dive in.
the black lines are created with ink pen, the colour is marker. this artwork is not framed.
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> this artwork is created on acid-free paper but has not been UV treated. i recommend it be framed in UV coated glass and kept away from direct sunlight to avoid fading.
> this artwork is packaged inside a heavy card and plastic sleeve to protect it from light, bending and damage to the paper and materials used
> while the best care is taken to ensure colours shown on this website match those of the original artwork, colours may not be fully appreciate on some systems due to differences in monitors and/ or display cards
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