My first idea comes from a gravestone that interprets the remembrance of the death that are usually stated on the surface of the gravestone. From there, I created a sense to stir up discussion and justifies on the object as it shows the lists of animals of all kinds that are considered to be extinct throughout these past few era. The idea is to create an impact to the viewer as to what might be the main cause for these animals to be extinct.
From my part of research, here are the possibilities and the most common reason as to why extinction has rise at a faster rate:
- The impact of introduced ("alien") species
- Pollution
- Disease
- Excess hunting, harvesting and exploitation
There are large numbers of habitat destruction that has caused mainly by human actions. The best known groups of organisms that are birds and mammals.
In my records:
Since year 1600 onwards, there were about 113 birds and about 83 mammals were to be known extinct. Approximately 70% of the known birds species are extinct in Hawaii due to the rise of human needs. So, I designed this gravestone encrypted with species that have extinct and recently extinct.
Why this idea I have brought up?
To see how many have had it's last breath virtually and statistically form and to give the viewers the awareness and to justify on what our doings have made them extinct.
The second idea is perhaps to be seen as no theoretical, aesthetic, methodological or anthropological reason which justifies the idea of displaying the dead plants and animal's last breath where I purposely created in a form from an everyday object that is a chair. The idea is perhaps cynical and pointless as it is simply turning the torture of a dead figurines into entertainment.
Though sometimes, in the field of art, the epic sacrifice of an animal expresses the mythodology of human violence can be transformed into language and the object speaks for what it is.
For this idea, I wanted to use clear resin where plants and animals can be clearly seen as to how many of these have been killed to just make a simple chair. This idea gives out the message and the awareness that We all should do every small steps in making the biodiversity at ease. When making small steps; We all in the end made a big steps to make it happen for the better.
The third idea was using the outline of what made biodiversity going; and one of them are the trees. Here, I created a sense of connection where I used strings that connects from one point to another. It symbolizes the role of everything within the biodiversity that it all connects in a very complex form.
Within the biodiversity world, between 5 and 40 million species are to be known alive today and approximately 1.7 million have been identified and cataloged.
A single tree may have as many as 1,200 - 50,000 species in making the tree to grow. If hundreds of species died due to high deforestation and climate change, the tree too cannot live long as well. The 'web' shows how everything, every little things connects around within the ecosystem.
Just imagine, if one of these strings cuts then all of them might be loose and fall apart where the form of the tree then looses its formation of an actual tree. In a way, it describes as to what will happen when a tree or hundreds and thousands of trees were cut down?
Looking at these three different ideas that have all in relation with my point, I have find ways of reintroducing us to objects we no longer see by removing vital components that force us to become intimate with the object in a new way and also to find new poetry in the mutual existence of person-object, to renew the vigour of the relationship.
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