Artist Statement

Derek Barton

01/5/2021

RLT Sandwich

I put lettuce, tomato, and A RAT in my sandwich, and at the top I put a tiny flag with “NYC” written on it poking through an olive. Also, while the rat is dead, I chose to leave it uncooked, and on top of that, the reason why I put a flag with NYC written on it on top of my sandwich is because I wanted to reveal to the viewer that the rat is from the sewers of NYC because rats are kind of famous in NYC for being everywhere in the city. I didn’t make it for anyone to eat because I made the sandwich as a joke and I got the idea of a rat sandwich from a game I played somewhere around the beginning of 2020 that had a secret area that had a rat sandwich on a pedestal.

I like my creation because of how dumb it is and because Ms. Lee expected the class to make something typically someone wouldn’t put on a sandwich, but still something appetizing judging by how she reacted to what I said I was going to draw so I kind of did it out of being mischievous. However something I think I would want to do differently next time is the rat because it’s proportions don’t look right to me.