Reflection on Skeleton series (name tbc)

Been a long time keeping the plastics, some are donated by people through social media, some by myself or some by friends. Still not having right decision on what to make, how to make or limited by the caps I don’t really know.

But, there’s some comments or advice throughout the period. I listened and reflected, some points are summerized as follows,

1. using proxy is actually kind of plastic that polluting the world, even the final

Work is nice, there should be much wasted

2. The materials are really too cheap that people just stop watching it before digging into the meaning behind?

3. And the works I keep questioning are those using the waste to form the animals, for example many bottles forming a whale,that’s not difficult for me, I am sure I could do it. What I keep doing is… a piece that raising awareness of pollution.

So, here’s a recent work that satisfies me and at the same time I think the meaning behind is a way better. The skeleton series, with the various plastics wastes, the repeating pattern, the unique form of individual shape, could be assembled as the skeleton form of endangered animals. The story behind is due to the very long lasting of plastics, which definitely longer than the critical endangered animals. Then I started to think of what if in the future, those animals disappeared, and human still alive, how could they illustrate the animals like those in the natural history museum. Of course this is talking about a very long term future, but we never knows as covid 19 affecting our habit so much…what if the knowledge on internet or taxidermy all lost at a time? And the humans could only find the plastics in the ocean, will they reform the skeleton like those scientists doing at this era?

Yea that’s the idea and not yet very solid, I keep tuning it while I already immersed into the assembling process. By using pin to hold the parts, that’s a way of taxidermy, I try to make it like more valuable, thus the outcome is somehow satisfying with the reflection points above. And the works already applied to a Japanese art fair, hope could gain more comments from there.

Sea turtle skeleton all angles
Sea turtle top view
Humpback whale side view

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One response to “Reflection on Skeleton series (name tbc)

  1. How inventive! And what a great way to create art! Thank you for adding the video – made it much easier to appreciate your creation.

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