I gave my partner a vintage BBW magazine for his 25th birthday the summer after I finished my MFA. 
What started as a gag gift became a study on consumption. What does it mean to consume VS be consumed? 

Fat porn and the people who enjoy it are seen as "kinky" and cast off as fetishists.  The category itself, "BBW," marks the content as other. In contrast, the sexualization of thin bodies is rarely seen as fetish, it’s just “normal.” This reveals a cultural double standard, where thinness is equated with control, discipline, even virtue, while fatness becomes symbolic of excess, indulgence, and moral failure.

The magazine series that inspired this piece, "PLUMPERS & Big Women", brought me to concepts of over-indulgence, excess, and the sinful desire for more. Women's appetites, whether for food or for sex, are to be moderated, if not outright suppressed. To eat too much, to want too much, to take up space- these are read not only as personal flaws, but as moral ones.

Wonder Bread, an American white sandwich loaf consisting of 20 perfect slices in a cheerful plastic bag became the backdrop of my plumpers and big women. White bread, a nutritionally void, culturally "bad" carbohydrate, plays the role of visual and symbolic base. It mirrors the way we moralize consumption- empty, excessive, and shameful. In this way, the pairing becomes a recursive loop- fetish porn on fetish food.