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Fasting is the act of intentionally abstaining from food or a regularly enjoyed good gift from God to focus on a period of spiritual growth or deepening our relationship with God. Fasting is the willful refrainment from eating. In a physiological context, fasting may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight, or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal. Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale and with a strong priority placed on "speed of service" versus other relevant factors involved in culinary science. Fast food was originally created as a commercial strategy to accommodate the larger numbers of busy commuters, travelers and wage workers who often did not have the time to sit down at a public house or diner and wait for their meal. By making speed of service the priority, this ensured that customers with strictly limited time (a commuter stopping to procure dinner to bring home to their family, for example, or an hourly laborer on a short lunch break) were not inconvenienced by waiting for their food to be cooked on-the-spot (as is expected from a traditional "sit down" restaurant). In 2018, the fast food industry was worth an estimated $570 billion globally. Hand-painted and juxtaposed within the word FAST FOOD brings to the surface the ironic and historic nature of fasting from a religious standpoint, the nourishment of feeding on the spiritual body and blood of christ, the every increasing "fast moving" nature of our society and the poor quality of fast food and people in lower levels of socity targeted by income and opportunity with "fast food, fast fashion, fast education, speed to market low quality consumables." In addition, the ebb and tied of information overload, fake news, instant notifications, global infections such as COVID and the inability to respect both religious freedom and scientific fact. Original Monumental Work 60in″ x 306in″ (152.4cm" x 777.24cm) Oil, oil stick, military & industrial enamels on canvas on birch panel with micro-layer clay ground. Editions on Paper: "Fast Food 2020 v1" Print Edition ©2020. Intended as one piece and to be displayed in order. Hand painted varnish on Giclée printed on the finest acid free archival hot press cotton rag paper. Limited to an edition of 10 Framed each: 26" x 34" Total framed width: 208" x 34" (17' x 2' 10") Unframed each : 20" x 28 1/8" Total framed width: 160" x 28 1/8"" (13' 3" x 2' 4") Each signed and dated Artist proof original - No. 1 Limited to an edition of 10 "Fast Food 2020 v2 42x42" Hand painted and altered giclée print on archival hot press cotton rag watercolor paper with hand torn edges. Painted in the Texas Studio. Each work is 1 of 8 individual giclée's make up the entire piece "Fast Food" Unframed: 42" x 42" Framed: 44" x 44" Signed and dated Edition of 25 Certificate of authenticity Dated 2020 edition