Jesus de Lyon
This whole painting was inspired by a single slice of a saucisson called "Jesus de Lyon".
Those familiar with Lucy knows how food can be an alien experience in those trips. The fruity, sweet and refreshing types of food are the easiest to handle, but the artist who painted this piece went another way. He took a fat slice of cured, chewy, salty pork meat and meditated on the experience of chewing it whole.
With eyes closed, the artist experienced powerful visions of what was once a living and breathing being, giving its life-force through its flesh to further life in another consciousness. Each motion necessary to tear through and chew on that slice of saucisson was permeated with gratitude for the sacrifice of the pork, a whole new found respect for the meat was found. In that instant, the pork was sacred, as much as any other living being on this earth, whether they are humans, animals, insects, mushrooms or plants. In that instant, that pork was as sacred as the holiest living being the artist could think of.
That pork was Jesus.
Those familiar with Lucy knows how food can be an alien experience in those trips. The fruity, sweet and refreshing types of food are the easiest to handle, but the artist who painted this piece went another way. He took a fat slice of cured, chewy, salty pork meat and meditated on the experience of chewing it whole.
With eyes closed, the artist experienced powerful visions of what was once a living and breathing being, giving its life-force through its flesh to further life in another consciousness. Each motion necessary to tear through and chew on that slice of saucisson was permeated with gratitude for the sacrifice of the pork, a whole new found respect for the meat was found. In that instant, the pork was sacred, as much as any other living being on this earth, whether they are humans, animals, insects, mushrooms or plants. In that instant, that pork was as sacred as the holiest living being the artist could think of.
That pork was Jesus.