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Abundance Fantasies: Mukbang
April 9, 2018Abundance Fantasies:Evangelical Carrots
February 11, 2018In our series on Abundance Fantasies we explore how we can activate our deeply rooted desire for abundance, codified within our language, our myths and religions, to initiate the desire to shrink. There’s an unmistakable relationship between fundamental human desire for abundance and how this desire…
Abundance Fantasies: The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat
November 20, 2016Perhaps no Hollywood movie director and choreographer personifies the desire for abundance better than Busby Berkeley. His choreographies were wildly extravagant, the geometric patterns hallucinatory, and the props and costumes beyond anything seen before. His work oozes a profound and limitless desire for excess. And…
Abundance Fantasies: Body Inflation
June 3, 2016Body inflation is the practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one’s body. It is commonly done by inserting balloons underneath clothes and then inflating them. Some people have specially made inflatable suits made from latex rubber to make themselves bigger all over. Others explore this fantasy through animation,…
Abundance Fantasies: The Alasitas Pathway
March 7, 2014Abundance Fantasies: Spherical Soup
October 30, 2013The Disproportionate Restaurant investigates how downsizing the human species will affect our relationship with food. Over the past years we did a number of experiments, including abundance fantasies such as the Ostrich BBQ and Sunflower Table and explorations of new ingredients and possibilities such as…
Abundance Fantasies: Giant Sushi Roll
September 12, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Exaggeration Cards
August 30, 2013Exaggeration cards are picture postcards depicting enormously oversized fruits, vegetables and livestock. First appearing in Fresno in 1905 the cards quickly struck a chord throughout the western United States. These “tall-tale postcards” became especially prevalent in small town rural communities hoping to forge an identity…
Abundance Fantasies: Al-Kawthar
June 23, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Cornucopia
June 6, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Cockaigne
May 23, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Grapes of Canaan
April 15, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Corn Cult
July 27, 2012Abundance Fantasies: King of Cabbage
April 8, 2010World in a Gourd
February 2, 20233 x 3.75 Mollys
November 17, 2022Micro Insects
April 20, 2022There are clear advantages to becoming very small. Micro-organisms gain access to new niches, acquire new food sources and avoid predation. They shrink towards abundance. Yet there are limiting factors to how small an animal can become including the disruption of thermoregulation or respiration, water…