A Feast for All 

 

The parents prepare the feast, hoping it to be perfect and cater to everyone’s taste. The friends come for the fun experience but leave when it becomes too overwhelming. Eastern society expects a traditional feast and finds themselves displeased by the unfamiliar flavour. Western civilisation is eager for the exotic culinary delight but feels let down by its mundanity. THEY ALL FEAST AND FEAST AND FEAST, until the feast gets colder and cloys their appetite. Disappointed, they depart, leaving behind a half-eaten, tarnished banquet. Leftovers remain - a result of a feast that fails to fulfil its promise.

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Take a closer look. Challenge your assumptions. I know the preconceptions you harbour. Would you still perceive my work the same if I depicted a body different from my own? Reconsider your perspective. You are now a banqueter. 

 

I depict my body because it is all I know, because I am confined within it, and because it is the lens through which I perceive and navigate the world. Yet, beyond this physical form lies a mind, a heart, and a soul— but again, who cares about these deeper facets when the body itself is the focal point of consumption?

                                                                       

Meera Dinh.