Title: Paula Bacon
Existence:
City: Oxford, OH
Year: 2025
She saw me
And my skin crawled.
She noticed my existence before I noticed hers.
She expected me to look back at her, and I did.
Before I realized her existence, I saw only a rotten whole, a room filled with entities that refused to exist, "pieces of bacon" that had never touched the earth and could only walk on wooden planks, drink water from plastic bottles, and be systematically raped to conceive more "baby bacon" for the market.
She saw me.
I saw her.
She needed to be seen.
She still needs to be.
First approach.
What led these pig-like entities to be disidentified from their existence, from their identity?
The market,
Athropocentrism,
The patriarchy that preaches a speciesist pyramidal hierarchy,
The "high-performance" economy,
Mass and disinterested consumption,
Irresponsible ways of living.
She needs to be seen,
Recognized,
Identified as an agent,
She has a say.