In this painting, bacon grease becomes a reflective surface, revealing a pig confined in a cage inside a factory farm. Most pigs in Canada spend their entire lives indoors and are killed at around six months old, despite a natural lifespan of 15–20 years. Mother pigs, or sows, are held in gestation and farrowing crates so small they cannot turn around (for their entire pregnancies and throughout weaning) while their piglets undergo painful procedures like castration, ear-notching, tail-docking, and teeth trimming- often without anesthetic.

By embedding this hidden reality within an everyday meal, this work aims to highlight the distance between a familiar product and the living being behind it. As billions of animals are killed each year, the painting invites viewers to reflect on what is unseen in our daily food choices and to consider the practices we support, often without realizing it.