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Cargo (Alligator mississippiensis) |
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| DATE: |
2016 |
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Sculpture (slip-cast vitreous china) |
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A series of porcelain casts made from 3D scanned natural history specimens, my project collapses two types of cargo circulated in the 17th-18th century by the Dutch East India Company – export ceramics and natural history specimens – to examine the value of exotic nature and its commodification. |
