Dinner For The Dog (2025)

Dinner for the Dog turns the Baroque banquet into an indictment of humiliation and performance. The woman at the centre, adorned in finery, sits before a dish inscribed with a single word—BITCH. Around her, men lean in, their faces half-lit by candlelight, watching her reaction as though it were part of the entertainment.

⤷ This painting explores the theatre of degradation. The woman’s posture remains poised and regal, but her stillness reads as resistance. She refuses to look at the meal before her, the pile of unidentifiable black matter that replaces food. Instead, she lifts her chin slightly, embodying a quiet and deliberate disdain.

The men’s expressions are gleeful, hungry for her reaction. Their presence completes the cycle of cruelty—the painting is not just about what is done to her, but about how it’s witnessed. The tension lies in that gaze: the shared complicity of those who consume and those who look away.

The title Dinner for the Dog mocks the old adage of female obedience, reworking it into an image of classed, gendered punishment. The table becomes a stage, and her silence becomes both a wound and a weapon.

Within The Damnation Project, this work functions as satire wrapped in elegance. It distills the hypocrisy of patriarchal morality, showing how refinement has always sat beside brutality.