Christien Meindertsma spent three years tracking down every product made from a single pig. Pork made a showing, but the more strange goods were "ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel." All in all, 158 products came out of the 103,700 grams of the hog at slaughter.
PIG 05049 shows the surprising degree to which global supply chains are intricately interconnected. Pig fat turns into automobile paint; bone ash turns into train brakes. The hog is as good a symbol of globalization as coca-cola or the World Trade Organization. Though Meinderstsma resists any moralizing, there's something decidedly uncanny about some poor porker completely deconstructed and scattered across the earth.
Christien Meindertsma will presenting a visualization of a pig farm at the Next Nature Power Show on November 5th.
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