A Cabinet for Present and Imaginary Futures

A Cabinet for Present and Imagined Futures engages with ideas surrounding the outcomes of genetic engineering and other biotechnologies. The diorama contains a mixture of real and faux organic material and hybrid organisms indicating the blurring of boundaries between species, the ‘natural’ and ‘created’.

The birds represent the creative and unpredictable forces within all forms of creative evolution and move from the pristine white dove into a dead crow indicating that all actions have both perceived positive and negative implications. The mangled crow has been set with precious and semi-precious gems indicating that suffering is often the result of actions driven by economic incentives.

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