{"id":87,"date":"2025-06-25T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:47:09","slug":"girl-feeds-taylor-swift-a-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/girl-feeds-taylor-swift-a-carrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Feeds Taylor Swift a Carrot (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldwork"],"acf":{"artwork_title":"Girl Feeds Taylor Swift a Carrot","medium":"concrete, reinforced steel rod, mobile phone, charging lead, digital collage","year":2025,"dimensions":" 114 x 16 x 10 cm","artwork_statement":"<strong>Critical Reflection:<\/strong>  Girl Feeds Taylor Swift a Carrot is a digital collage displayed on an always-on iPhone, mounted to a steel rod embedded in a concrete block. It is a digital collage with a girl offering Taylor Swift a carrot. Taylor is behind a wire fence which could represent a zoo like enclosure. On the fence there is a sign, from TikTok saying \u201cFeed the Animals\u201d with a subtext of \u201cBe cougar and bear aware\u201d. The sign is used in National Parks in the USA but has been reversed here with cougar and bear now having digital connotations. \u00a0It is a still image \u2013 a moment in time - rather than a loop displayed in the iphone. The iphone is plugged in, and set to always on display.\r\n\r\nThe act of offering a carrot, a traditional symbol of encouragement, becomes symbolic in the context of TikTok and digital culture. Here, the carrot represents likes, clicks, shares \u2014 the feedback loops that keep the machinery of celebrity culture alive. The child becomes both participant and product, trained from a young age to \u201cfeed\u201d celebrity through interaction.\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift is caged behind a wire fence, reminiscent of zoo enclosures \u2014 adored but inaccessible, commodified yet isolated. This highlights the paradox of digital intimacy: always visible, never reachable.\r\n\r\nThe materials \u2014 raw concrete and steel \u00a0\u2014 foundational elements of the built environment we live in are representative of the structures that underpin society. These are now fused with power (denoted by the charging cable), and always on technology via the smartphone, frozen on a still image of celebrity and social media, suggesting that these are now just as embedded in the infrastructure of society as steel and concrete.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GirlFeedsCarotToTaylorSwift_DigitalCollage_6735x4741_2025-1-1024x721-1-300x211.png\" alt=\"Girl Feeds Taylor Swift A Carrot (MEME)\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3815-1-1152x1536-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Girl Feeds Taylor Swift a Carrot (Sculpture)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89\" \/>\r\n<br>\r\nThe image of Taylor Swift is created by UltimateWarrior13 uploaded to Wikipoedia and available under the creative commons license Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons","feature_image":90,"themes":["Sculpture","Digital Collage"],"custom_slug":"","":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}