Maryam Arslan creates portraits of decadent comfort foods saturated with sugar and grease. As long as art has been made, artists have found in food an endlessly elastic metaphor. From Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s illusory paintings of royal portraits as heaps of fruits and vegetables, to artists’ depictions of lavish banquets for wealthy patrons, food and art are remarkably intertwined and have appeared in myriad contexts over centuries. Autumn (1573), Guiseppe Arcimboldo Even after hundreds of years, artists continue to use food to convey a range of themes, from consumerism to essential dependence, and from our insatiable, gluttonous nature to the ephemerality of time.