Addendum to My Daily Meal

Abstract

I revisit prior auto-theoretical work on disordered eating, recounting its focus and explaining how it has since provoked me to rethink my art practice, in particular how it feels to use chance (aleatory) operations and how they intervene in the perfectionism that affects my self-image. I narrate the process of drawing several scribble portraits and reflect on how they elude the nagging pressure of perfectionism allied with realism. I cite recent review literature on the relation between perfectionism and disordered eating and on the efficacy of art therapies in eating disorders’ management and conclude by suggesting that chance operations from the historical and contemporary artistic avant-garde may offer useful strategies for future intervention and management of eating disorders.