Supermarket Shopper is a rather grotesque look at the modern American relationship with food. Much of Hanson's sculptures deal with obesity but in a less critical way. Hanson himself felt that the scultpure was too critical in it's depiction of an obese woman, piling up her trolley with unhealthy, processed food. We judge the figure for her over-eating yet deciphering the products within her trolley we see correlations between our eating habits and those of the figure. For example Coca-Cola is the largest drinks company in the world, we all have at least once drank a can of Coca-Cola. This gives an affinity to the sculpture in that we judge her for her obesity, yet, we ourselves are guilty of giving into similar temptations.
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