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Locally Sourced Bodies: Low-Waste Desire Initiative
Pastel on Canvas
160” x 177”
2023-2025


“You are what you eat”

We live inside the same flavours of experience, the same small orbit of faces, touching and being touched in ways that feel new but are not. We take each other in, through love, through want, through habit, and then we pass each other on, changed but not changed enough.

Desire begins to look less like hunger and more like consumption.

Not a single feast, but a cycle.

The same appetite dressed in different skin. We reach, we taste, we swallow, we become. Then we are tasted in turn.

A promise of renewal that is also a confession of repetition. Nothing disappears. It just moves through.

Use becomes reuse.

We flavour each other.
We feed each other.
We inherit hungers that were there before we arrived.

A shared appetite older than any body, moving through us, asking to be filled again and again.




Smoking Phallic And Why Men Who Smoke May Have Trouble Getting And Keeping An Erection: Self-Portrait

Crayon, Oil, Charcoal and Graphite, on Paper
130” x 150” 
2023 In Some Remarks on Tobacco, Eric Hiller frames cigarettes and cigars as phallic symbols, emphasizing their tubular form, glowing tip, and the release of smoke. These qualities inform the depiction of the cigarette as an extension of the body, while the positioning of the hands suggests an act of self-stimulation. Smoking is thus approached as a private ritual of pleasure and immediacy, where indulgence and control intersect. The cigarette functions as a sign of power and desire, and the smoke, reimagined as emission, extends its sexual charge.

The scale of the figure establishes a dominant presence, amplifying the intimacy of the gesture and demanding sustained attention from (you).

This drawing is grounded in personal experience with smoking, understood not simply as habit, but as a compulsion tied to patterns of pleasure and sexuality.

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