I was wondering how i should end the year. Or write about a book about art and biotechnology? In the 19th century, coprolite were valued, not so much for their paleontological interest but for their potential as a source of available phosphate once they had been treated with sulphuric acid. They were then mined on an industrial scale in the UK for use as fertiliser. It is naturally difficult for humans to have a sense of time frames that extend so widely beyond homo sapiens existence on Earth.
So how do you connect to that ultra distant period at a time when everything around us seems to be accelerating? As for the title of the work, Asstral Travel , it is a direct reference to astral travel also called astral projection , an ancient belief that we can separate our physical body from our spiritual one to travel throughout the universe.
Connecting a sex toy with the faeces of an extinct animal humorously links the human interfaces for excrement and pleasure, with the vestigial experience β known but felt by no one β that dinosaurs once existed on earth. I discovered the work in early November during the Artissima in Turin and i never found a moment to sit down and blog about it.
He had some amazing artworks at his gallery booth during the art fair. Skip to content I was wondering how i should end the year. Secondary navigation Search.
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