Two Mouths, One Fate reflects on the uneasy lines we draw between animal as companion and animal as commodity. A two-headed ceramic calf - its mouth doubled, its body stilled - is mounted in a star shaped shadow box lined with fur. A cowbell and brush accompany it, evoking care, familiarity, even affection. But the the twin mouths speak to hunger, excess, to the way bodies are bred and split for our use. Echoing both the sideshow specimen and the shrine, the work asks why some lives are fed and named, while others are butchered and packaged. Two Mouths, One Fate holds the tension between reverence and utility, affection and consumption, without offering comfort.

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