Emily Peacock’s Soft Diet
Hello Project, Houston [link]
published on Glasstire.com, Feb 14, 2015 [link]
Initially a warm and quirky set of enlarged domestic snapshots, Emily Peacock’s Soft Diet at Hello Project in Houston has instant familiarity. They are the joyous familial pictures of every American child’s memories, except that the faces in each photo are conveniently blotted out with Jello, goo, fat, or baby teeth. Infinitely more odd than the underlying photos, these tactile, psychological fillers adorning the family slideshow desecrate and enliven without being antagonistic, creating mysterious relationships that could merely be humorous play, but tend to read as potentially profound and personal.
