Tomatina/Tim

What is beautiful? What is ugly? When you describe the work, does it remain beautiful/ugly or does your opinion change?

Lots of tomatoes. La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in Spain. Thousands upon thousands of people make their way from all corners of the world to fight in this 'World's Biggest Food Fight' where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

One more for Tim. The Tomatina video is paired with a video of an American professional competitive eater, training for his competition. Tim consumes 40 hotdogs in less than 10 minutes. Can you imagine that?

Raúl Ortega Ayala (1973) studied painting at ‘La Esmeralda’ in Mexico City after which he traveled to the Glasgow School of Art for a Master in Fine Arts.

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