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Arbeit McFries, Jake & Dinos Chapman, 2001.

Mixed Media. 122 x122 x 122cm

Stimulus:

• Plastic figures without clothing, some deformed.
• Plastic body parts partially painted with red paint.
• McDonald’s sign
• Vultures (Some standing on the rooftop, some standing on the ground and some landed on plastic figures.)
• A brick house with one wall partly collapsed and a tall chimney.
• Black smoky colour painted in the interior of the brick house
• Glass roof, partly broken
• High metal net fence surrounded the brick house
• Tress
• A poster / billboard
• Broken windows
• Glass door
• Pillars

Meaning:

• Red painted on figures and bodies = Blood
  
• Deformed plastic toys figures and bodies = Injured or killed people
  
• Figures with vulture landed in it= Attacked / eaten by vulture.
• McDonald’s= The world largest cain fast food restaurant
• McDonald’s sign on a brick house with tall chimney and poster on the wall= A fast food shop / factory.
•  Vulture=Bird that eat death or injured animal or person.
• Black smoky colour painted in the interior of the brick house = Dirty;Dusty;Burn mark.
• Broken windows, door and glass roof= Damaged
• High metal net fence surrounded the brick house = High defense
• Partly collapsed wall= Damaged

Signs:

• Fast food(McDonald’s)= junk food - high in fat, sugar and salt, and low in fibre and vitamins; negative.

• Fast food shop= Unethical business.

• Vulture= Death, horror, negative.

• The dust, the burn mark and all the damaged had found on the house= Hazard, destroy, ruined; negative.

• Fence - High defense= Prison; negative.

• People attacked or eaten by vulture= Death, horror; negative.
  

Myths:

• McDonald’s is the evil --
• Bringing people greater risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases.

• Sick people eaten by vulture.

• The place will finally be destroy, just like a horror movie, the evil and the others will die at the end.

Ideology:

• Consumerism
• Famine
• Poor animal rights, animal finally fight back.
• End of the world