Title: Grunting Comes for Words

Subject: Macreus

Artist: Bryan Whitehead

 

Artist’s statement: From the age of Ovid right up until sometime in my younger years, being a pig was something shameful (unless of course you actually were a pig, in which case carry on). If Circe transformed you into one, you’d want to get turned back into a human. But in 2016 our country is beset with a whole political movement of pigs. Folks aren’t just settling for it, they’re wallowing in it.