In How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change Allan deSouza writes that “even under the regimes of constraint (and there are never not such regimes), desire is unruly, irrepressible, excessive, bursting into visibility often through codes of gesture, metaphor, insinuation, association; the glance askew, the tilted head, the stretched foot, the curled foot.” The works included in Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart reject the notion of the guilty pleasure. They are love letters, power ballads— gushing, blushing, overflowing. These are the codes and codexes of hunger, abundance, lust, and excess that elude the grasp of legal, moral, and economic structures.
