Hello, friends of Steemit!
Almost a year and a half ago I made the design of this xylographic engraving, when it began to sharpen the change of "menu" in the food dishes in Venezuela. The PAN flour moved away, and the masses of corn came from any stall in any corner, the ham was replaced by the mortadella, and the tuna lost ground against the canned sardine.
These changes in the pattern of consumption that are defined and mutated by the reality of the country have always interested me as an object of analysis from the arts, along with the welcoming and conformist nature of this population that makes up my environment. At the time (a year before) it seemed ironic to me that elements of consumption rejected in good times, thanks to the fact that the purchasing power, plus the demand of the market allowed it, and that they had reached the point of considering themselves as belonging to social classes economically disadvantaged, they were becoming the daily bread of all those who suffer this crisis full of absurdities and joint irresponsibility.
Today, this irony turns against me, becoming almost a cruel grace; I know very few people who continue to buy canned sardines and not directly in the markets or the fishermen. I do not know if the reason is for the sale price of the cans, if it is unlikely to get them in supermarkets and supplies, or simply because of consumer preference.
With the advantages or disadvantages that this may mean in the economy, it seems to me a statement, and even proof of how our country changes and adapts to an infinite variability of "normalities" nimbly for good or for bad. And added, how art, at least the one that in his speech tries to visualize these features, is useful as a chronicle, memory, protest and reflection.
