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T
erra Lacteus Quod Cerealis
Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish
60" x 72"
2008

Inspired by Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna, early examples of secular cooptation of Christian iconography for political purposes, this piece explores how contemporary product marketing functions through appeals to our sense of – and desire for – the transcendental. In the Land of Milk and Cereal, we are what we eat.



2008 Ryan Alexiev. All rights reserved.