Amelia Clark

Clark University, 2026, Studio Art, U.S. History

Eaten

etching and spit bite aquatint ink on hot press paper

10″ x 12″

2024

$250

The sweet meat of the fig is only made because a female fig wasp cannot escape the flower she has laid her eggs in. The intricacies of the flesh and seeds are the formed from the wasp’s enzymatically broken-down body, but there is a brief moment while fig and wasp exist together, engaging in ancient parasitic process.

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