As owners continue to look for ways to give their pets the best diets possible and address common health problems like weight management and skin and
coat issues through food, those benefits can help drive demand and provide retailers with helpful selling points.
Barney exposes ambiguities in our prevailing assumptions about gender and physical strength
through his performance - based media works, and he raises similar
issues in his sculptural renderings of weightlifting equipment, which are cast or
coated in tactile materials such as petroleum jelly, wax, and sucrose.