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Mice, 34" x 9" Lightjet 430 print, 2004
My interest lies in the trajectory of scientific progress
that has taken us to a time when zoos are already housing animals that have been ‘manufactured’ in captivity. Much like the model organisms which are being mutated, cloned, and in a sense ‘designed’ by the genetic/genomic scientist, the zoo’s future inhabitants will be creatures which do not currently exist in ‘nature.’ This project is a sequence of images which portray a fictional ‘Zoological Laboratory,’ a construct through which I attempted to fuse conditions of the zoo (human spectatorship, notions of classification, the fact of ‘capture’) with conditions of the genetics lab. My work explores the spatial, formal, and textural implications of inhabiting boundaries between the natural and the artificial, as they are continuously being reconsidered and redefined.
joyceh@alumni.princeton.edu
Mice 4, 12" x 9" Lightjet 430 print, 2004
Cows, 12" x 9" Lightjet 430 print, 2004
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