Week3

3D SketchUp 3







Breast feeding / Skeleton

36 Features/ Qualities/ Properties of Materials


"Above"



"Between"


"Below"


The Young Family (2002)

“The Young Family” was made out of silicone, polyurethane, leather, human hair and other variables. It was created by Patricia Piccinini in 2002. The creature in the photo was named SO3. It is an improved version of the Siren Mole, also named SO2, which was nurtured by Piccinini few years ago. According to Michael, in her sculpture “The Young Family”, the mother might be a 62-year old in the real world and got pregnant through IVF by Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori. As the woman’s status is a new mother, her expression is tired, sad, patient and world-weary. She got eyes, skin, hairs and veins just like human beings. However, she also got hairy back, muscular arms and hands of a primate, a snout, long floppy ears and a tail. Moreover, this piece of art might be testing the relationship between what we conceive and what we see. For example, we might see SO3 as a monstrous; however, as the fact that today science fiction becomes fact so rapidly, it is quite conceivable that this creature exists in the world.

Reference:

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/we_are_family.pdf -- by Linda Michael

The First One Now (2000)

“The First One Now” was a piece of art created by Ricky Swallow in 2000. The skeleton was made of pigmented resin (in gray, olive, and black camouflage forms) and in a size of 25 x 23 x 50 in. (scales 1:1). The life-size skeleton on the chain ladder was rising up from the floor and Palmer describes it as a macabre premonition of human demise. Despite the skeleton was in bone-colour and covered in colourful squiggles planted below the surface of it, it seems to be turning into liquid which related to his previous art like “The Darth Vader sculpture”. As “The First One Now” mapped Darwinian qualities onto a model of human form, Swallow refers it as ‘final moment portrait’.

Reference:

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/shadowplay/ -- by Daniel Palmer, 2001

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