BEX HAYTER CREATIVE

These photographs are from my grad exhibition in 2016. This is the exhibition that I produced along with my thesis titled: "Making Visual, Through Glass, Ceramics, and Resin, the Cruelty Inflicted on Chickens in Intensive Livestock Production"

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The purpose of the document is to expose, educate, and propose solutions to the problem of intensive livestock production. Although the research intends expose the cruelty inflicted on all livestock animals in factory farming, it focuses on the treatment of chickens. Furthermore, the document explores how I attempted to make this treatment visual through means of glass and ceramics in the realm of fine arts. The document’s overriding purpose is to provide the reader with the realization of the cruelty involved in the deplorable system of livestock factory farming.

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The photographs are compositions of day old chicks collected from a local hatchery in Port Elizabeth that supplies local shops such as Spar and Pick 'n Pay. The hatchery, as well as plenty almost all other hatcheries in the world kill day old chicks (this small hatchery only kills around 100 every day) every day. They snap their necks if they do not meet up to standard - being if they have an impurity, their naval haven't healed properly, or they aren't the right shade of yellow.