11. Implications and applications¶
EMBOIDED WILDLIFE¶
Jewelry sculptural art pieces inspired by animal wildlife are designed to gradually fade over time, symbolizing the precarious existence of endangered animal life.
THE SLIDES¶
Embodied Wildlife by shahed Jamhour
INSPIRATION¶
ANIMAL : The Other Side of Evolution (bioepoxy, fiberglass, wax, rubber, acrylic resin, 2012)
The question of what the human being is, is inseparable from that of what the animal is. The history of man is the history of his own animality, as well as history of the practices he employs to distance himself from this animality. The Series “Animal – The Other Side of Evolution” looks at the idea of separation and conjunction between human and animal, while symbolizing an imagined evolution or “the other side of evolution” where humans have developed more in tune with their natural habitat.
The research explores ‘hybrid-humans’ with augmentative chimeric limbs.
By adapting ideas from the animal world, the project studied, copied and rearranged the appearance and function of specific creatures, in order to seek an analogy in terms of engineering and design, with a focus on static appendages in animals such as tusks and horns. Through the hybrid-augmentations exploring the limits of human “plasticity”, the research looked into how we might adapt—mentally and physically—to having additional limbs added to our bodies. Could we live with alternative chimeric-embodiments? Could we change the biological body representation and expression through animal-like body-augmentation?
The project looked at the new mutation possibilities, in order to develop a contemporary cross-image of human and animal, suggesting an atemporal, supreme creature beyond past and futu
Model:Anna Tatton
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Animal: The Other Side of Evolution by Ana Rajcevic
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(polyurethane, wax, leather, rubber, 2016-2017)
The research explores ‘hybrid-humans’ with augmentative chimeric limbs.
By adapting ideas from the animal world, the project studied, copied and rearranged the appearance and function of specific creatures, in order to seek an analogy in terms of engineering and design, with a focus on static appendages in animals such as tusks and horns. Through the hybrid-augmentations exploring the limits of human “plasticity”, the research looked into how we might adapt—mentally and physically—to having additional limbs added to our bodies. Could we live with alternative chimeric-embodiments? Could we change the biological body representation and expression through animal-like body-augmentation?
“Taurus” presents a trophy horns, as a symbol of mankind’s display of power and dominance over nature. By upsetting this hierarchy, the trophy horns are not an animal part anymore but rather of a fellow human, displayed as a trophy wall-sculpture.
Photo by Ana Rajcevic
Model: Otti Reynolds
WHY, WHAT, WHO, WHEN ?¶
WHY?¶
- Show case of animal extinction (cruelty, hunting, numbers).
- An art piece! Do you remember the deaths of animals?
- 5 elements of nature (air, earth, water, fire, and space)
WHAT?¶
Jewelry pieces that are animal sculptures that are on the body show some parts of the animal that will be here maybe after a year, we don’t know!
WHO?¶
worn by models, maybe some who care about nature, or showcased at museums and galleries
WHEN?¶
January–March
HOW!¶
damage to art, extinction, and nature to make art wearable, which shows the reality of what happens in this world.
MOURNING JEWELRY¶
Mourning jewelry dates back to the 1600s but gained huge popularity in the 1800s when Queen Victoria mourned the death of her beloved Albert.
The Georgians wore mourning jewelry with dark, macabre themes. Popular motifs included skeletons, gravediggers and coffins. The jewelry of this time was designed as a ‘memento mori’ (reminder of death’s inevitability). This reminded people to live life to the full.
A Georgian funeral, circa 1750s
Victorian mourning jewelry was popular during the late 1800s and was used as a tribute or memento to remind the wearer about their love for the person they had lost.
Death was a regular occurrence in Victorian times, thanks to pervasive diseases like cholera and scarlet fever. For this reason, the loss of a loved one was not a shocking event, but a sad part of everyday life.
The popularity of mourning jewelry reached its peak during the Victorian era (1837-1901). Queen Victoria was deeply in love with her husband, Prince Albert, and when he died in 1861, she fell into a long depression.
Queen Victoria spent much of the next four decades wearing black crepe dresses and mourning jewelry. She commissioned portraits, memorials, and busts of Prince Albert and other mementos that were reminders of her deceased spouse.
As Queen Victoria set the example for her court and was an admired public figure, wearing mourning jewelry became fashionable. Aristocrats and the wealthy commissioned lockets, bracelets, necklaces, and rings to memorialize their loved ones.
Common materials included jet, onyx, pearls, dark tortoiseshell, black enamel, bog oak, vulcanite, and gutta-percha (natural rubber made from the Southeast Asian tree).
5 ELEMENTS OF NATURE¶
Imbalance of the 5 Elements of nature is the cause of most diseases The source of chronic (self-manifested) diseases is the impurity of any of the elements or if the elements are out of balance with another element in the body.
- Imbalance of Water element: This is visible as excess mucus, cold, sinusitis, swelling of glands, edema of tissues, blood thinning or blood clotting.
- Imbalance of Earth element: shows itself as general weakness in the body, loss of calcium from bones, obesity, cholesterol, weight loss, and weight gain, muscular diseases, etc.
- Imbalance of Fire element: manifests itself as fever, skin diseases like inflammation, increased coldness or heat in the body, excessive sweating, hyper-acidity, slow digestion and absorption of nutrients, toxins in the body, diabetes, etc.
- Imbalance of Air element: leads to skin dryness, blood pressure problems, lung disorders, dry cough, bloating, constipation, lethargy, insomnia, muscular spasms, depression, etc.
- Imbalance of Space element: is visible as Thyroid disorders, throat problems, speech disorders, epilepsy, madness, ear diseases, etc.
ANIMAL EXTINCTION¶
Scientists have produced two more white rhino embryos to save one of the world's most endangered mammals from extinction, mainly due to poaching. This means there are now five viable white rhino embryos, which are stored in liquid nitrogen in Cremona, Italy. Scientists hope to deliver their first northern white rhino calf in three years, using a surrogate mother. Scientists working to save the northern white rhino from extinction have produced two more embryos of the world’s most endangered mammal, increasing the number of viable embryos produced so far to five.
There are no known living males and neither of the two remaining northern white rhinos on Earth - a mother and her daughter living in Kenya - can carry a calf to term.
Have you read? 9 of the most shocking facts about global extinction - and how to stop it Larger species are more at risk of extinction than smaller ones - here's why Scientists hope to implant embryos made from the rhinos’ egg cells and frozen sperm from deceased males into surrogate mothers from a more abundant rhino species.
The work of the BioRescue research team has been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic as international travel restrictions delayed some of its procedures.
“2020 was really a hard test for all of us, but giving up is not the mentality of any true scientist,” BioRescue leader Thomas Hildebrandt from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany told Reuters.
“Christmas gave us a present: two embryos. And we are extremely happy about that.”
The five embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen at a laboratory in Cremona, in Italy’s Lombardy region, waiting to be transferred into a surrogate mother.
The team hopes to be able to deliver its first northern white rhino calf in three years and a wider population in the next two decades.
“We are under time constraint because we want really a transfer of the social knowledge from the last existing northern white rhinos to a calf,” Hildebrandt said.
The northern white rhino used to live in several countries in east and central Africa, but its numbers fell sharply due to poaching.
WHITE RHINO (CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM) White rhinos are decreasing primarily due to poaching losses. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission’s African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) reported that there are now an estimated 16,803 white rhinos – the first increase for the species in over a decade.
The white rhino, along with the roughly equal-sized greater one-horned rhino, is the largest land mammal after the elephant. It has two distinct subspecies, but only populations of the southern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) remain viable. The northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is extinct in the wild due to poaching, and only two females remain at a sanctuary in East Africa.
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The Great Rhino Robbery "MOVIE"
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