Cookie Cutter
Jackson Daughety
2025 | ink and acrylic on canvas
Cookie Cutter, along with some of the other recent work has been about shopping, biology and abundance imagery. This retail display, rendered in layers of translucent cyan, magenta and yellow, is recontextualized into a landscape of accumulation. I am interested in this relationship between shopping and our hunter-gatherer instincts. It feels like one of the many ways in which we are asked to impotently perform our biological impulses within the artificial mediation of late capitalism. Not only are we asked to engage with these facsimiles of the abundant natural world, but we are expected to overlook their inherent inequality.