The American Dream/Renny's Delicatessen, 2019.
The American Dream/Renny's Delicatessen is an ongoing project that started in 2018. Through this piece, hundreds upon hundreds of ceramic cakes, cookies, donuts, hot dogs, burgers, sandwiches, and other sweet and salty treats are "mass-produced" one by one of clay. Each piece is unique in its own rushed process that aims to mimic the quantity over quality of many manufactured products. These goods are then taken out into public spaces and sold through wooden storefronts, stalls, stands, or usherette boxes ran by the artist and/or his hired (and paid) employees. The entirety of the piece for each performance/occasion seeks to replicate the entrepreneurship of the fabled American Dream while also satirizing American consumption (both aesthetics and products).