"Bait" explores the unsettling intersection between nurture, consumption, and control through the fragile yet resilient imagery of chickens. Rendered in drypoint, the series traces moments from a chicken’s life from the vulnerability of chicks cradled in a butcher’s hand to the stark finality of beheaded bodies. Each print captures a tension between care and cruelty, presence and absence, life and its commodification. The sharp, tactile quality of the drypoint line mirrors the physical and emotional abrasion of these scenes, transforming the ordinary into a quiet confrontation.