“Pieing, the goal is usually to humiliate the victim while avoiding actual injury. For this reason the pie is traditionally of the cream variety without a top crust, and is rarely if ever a hot pie.”

“Perpetrators generally regard the act as a form of ridicule to embarrass and humiliate the victim.”

In this series, I have taken a frame from found video footage of people who have been hit by pies or cake.

I am exploring themes of food and the body as fetish, sex and food, humiliation and transformation.

I have been thinking about how we have learned at a young age not to play with your food, throw food, cover yourself in food, most of all waste food as our parents told us; turning these actions into something forbidden.

Many of the clips I found were of mostly white women, even running into porn with women who were being hit by pies, often repeatedly while performing. I also came across women fully clothed on porn sites just being hit by pies, yet mostly it was of women in bikinis and lingerie.

The throwers were often men.

JANICE SLOANE

JANICE SLOANE