Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
Summer Wall: Pink Cloud, 5' x 13', hand-stitched cotton, 2006

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‘When gourmandism turns into gluttony, voracity, or perversion, it loses its name, its attributes, and all of its meaning, and becomes fit subject for the moralist….’
---Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste (1825)

I grew up a tomboy. Upon adolescence, I approached my newfound femininity and sexuality with this sporty gusto. Relationships, hairdos, food, sex—everything was
a game, a contest, something to push on. This piece was created to evoke the overwhelmingly sweet smell of icing at a party or perhaps a flower shop on a hot day.
Everything seems all right at first, upon closer inspection, my girls act out the consequences of overindulgence.