Faculty of Design

Illustration

Cristian Chiappetta

Locally Grown

A small farm town sits nestled in an abandoned grocery store. Little mutated fruit and veggie creatures, despite the environment they’ve been left with, seem to manage just fine, repurposing litter for homes and growing candy from the contaminated soil.

“This piece represents litter pollution and soil contamination in how we produce wasteful packaging for our food. Placed in the context of this hypothetical world, heavily modified, processed food have now mutated into little creatures, only able to grow things like candy rather then normal plants. Grocery stores in many ways act in direct opposition of farms, as they produce heavy amounts of harmful packaging and contaminates. In a hypothetical future beyond our species, it seems fitting that the food we've tampered with for shelf sustainability, ends up adapting a mind of it's own, cultivating what we've left for them. ”