Beyond all our culture and civilisation, however sophisticated, lies the fact of our animality. Before we are spiritual beings, we are physical ones, before the mind comes the body.

John Yeadon’s Vanitas celebrates the mortality of the eater and the eaten. In this bold acceptance of both desire and doom, of Eros and Thanatos, we find ourselves acknowledging that we share life with the things we eat - and we share death with them too. 

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