A piece on the tragedy of food deserts in the art show 31 Days of Urban Agriculture.
This piece I decided to do in typography alone.
Since food deserts — places that lack access to fresh, wholesome food — manifest in a variety of ways, from dense urban areas with no fresh grocers, to places surrounded by urban land that residents can’t use due to zoning, private ownership, liability concerns, etc., to places where residents could grow but they don’t know how and don’t know how to use what they produce, I decided that rather than depicting any one of these scenarios in pictorial form, I’d just use a sad font to tell the story that unites them all: There is no food in this place
More on the tragedy of food deserts — and inspiring stories about what some people are doing about it — in the chapbook essay.
Purchase the print in my Etsy Shop Lady Virginia Vintage.
— Lindsay Curren, 31 Days of Urban Agriculture
