Drawers, Cat and a Table - Additional Ideas

As the audience moves around and interacts with the room, they will begin to notice that the furniture and props consists of/ have elements of living matter combined with them. The hybrids of non-living props and the ‘living’ objects represent the blurred boundaries that biotechnology presents to us.

Drawers (sideboard cabinet)- when you open up a draw it has teeth growing on the inside of them. Inside the cupboard could be a glowing heart sculpture attached to the inside

Cat- Sculpture of a cat laying down. Parts of its body are made up of non living items, such as marble for an eye, shoe lace as a tail.

Table - On the table there is a bowl of fruit. One of the apples has been bitten into and reveals furry inside or fish scales inside. The table could have animal like feet. The bowls, knives, plates could be fashioned from animal like textures.

Lamp table - On the lamp table there will be a green bioluminescence lamp, growing down the side of the lamp and the table will be the bacteria spreading and escaping.

The hybridization of these objects will represent the blurring of the boundaries between artificial and natural, living and non-living, and questions what would be class of living, or natural in the future.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Chiara Lecca

I really like Lecca's work as it challenges the boundary between natural and artificial, by using an unusual style, whilst being visually interesting. The use of taxidermied animals parts to replace natural parts on plants show that not only the life stilled in the form of cut flowers, but also in dead nature by these animal parts.