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Artwork description: This artwork explores the welfare of farmed animals under the care of a single person. After discussions with the Finnish Centre for Animal Welfare, unexpectedly, a new side of animal welfare opened to me — the human factor.
In Finland, thousands of chickens, hundreds of pigs, or other large animals can legally be under the care of just one individual. While laws assign responsibility to the caretaker, there are no regulations limiting how many animals one person can be responsible for. This absence of limits creates a fragile and dangerous imbalance.
When a farmer becomes burned out, ill, disinterested, or overwhelmed, those thousands of lives are left vulnerable. The result is often silent suffering: neglect, disease, and death on a massive scale.
Material used in this art is upcycled babble wrap - disposable and unstable by it’s nature. Form represents disbalance.
Through materials and concept of this work, I wanted to capture that fragile instability — where countless lives depend on a single human being. The piece represents tension: the point where care collapses into chaos.
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