Post consumer stainless steel, brass, and plastic off cuts, aluminium mesh, Tricolour LEDs, other various electronics.
When Enlightenment scientists worked to discover, study and preserve exotic fauna and flora found in the new world, they probably did not intend this knowledge to enable destruction of the environments they explored. However, indications of this potential were evident as exotic creatures were prized mainly as taxidermy specimens for display as curiosities, or symbols of wealth and status - trophies of travel to distant lands.
e. Menura Supurba is an interactive artwork. It explores the paradox between our fascination with the exotic, and our potentially dystopic future devoid of many animal species. The work hybridises seventeenth to early twentieth century aesthetics with refined post consumer waste materials, to create a simulacra of a lyre bird.
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