Art Criticism 1 - Ben Horrobin

Eight inch statue in a plexiglass case

Set in a recess near the elevators of what could be a bank or oil and gas building

A pig painted to look like a cow

Flesh painfully distended from years of apparent excess

Corpulent and smirking

Teeth like a condemned cemetery

A physical manifestation of all our worst urges

No plaque

Unnecessary if there had been

Who bought this?

Why?

Is there a catalogue of corporate art

Where I can send away for my own pestilent effigy?

BIOGRAPHY:

Ben Horrobin was born at the tender age of zero in Vancouver, BC. He can be found on Instagram @Kudzureclaimsthesouth.