Meat Flies, 1991
Graphite, gouache, and ink on white Strathmore Bristol board
40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
© Sue Coe
At some point in my life if I saw an animal with a broken leg, or an eye gouged out at a stockyard, I would be obsessed with the suffering...
At some point in my life if I saw an animal with a broken leg, or an eye gouged out at a stockyard, I would be obsessed with the suffering of that animal...like a tooth that has broken, my tongue straying to the jagged edge, a reminder over and over of the suffering. How did that help the animal? I learned that the attachment to the emotion of suffering had a similar route to the attachment to the concept of happiness. Real compassion is where our actions lessen the suffering and cruelty. If we are going to be long distance runners, we pace ourselves.
—Sue Coe, interview with Dianne Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, issue #39, May 1999
—Sue Coe, interview with Dianne Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, issue #39, May 1999
Literature
The International Review of Graphic Design, Summer 1996, Eye 21, vol 6, p. 37Artlink: Considering the Animals, 2018, p. 19
Publications
Sue Coe, Dead Meat, 1996
Sue Coe, Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation, 2012, p. 129.Stephen F. Eisenman, The Ghosts of Our Meat exhibition catalogue, 2013, verso of contents page and p. 15, fig. 14 and p. 58, plate 14
Tommy Kane, Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest, 2022, p. 66