Video: Human Ash Sculptures by Vicky Somers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We are all accustomed to the fact that authors use garbage or recycled materials in their work. Vicky Somers (Wieki Somers), in fact, did the same, and it is unlikely that her work would have aroused much interest, if not for one BUT: the works presented in the article are made from human ashes obtained as a result of cremation.
Using human ash as a material for sculptures (by the way, Vicki Somers used 3D printing technology) is not a desire to stand out and provoke a heated controversy around her work. Project "Consume or Conserve?" makes you think about the value of human life, progress and consumption. In no way denying the achievements of science and technology, Vicky Somers asks the question: has humanity gone too far in pursuit of progress and has not lost some more important values?
“The dilemma that worries us most is that one day technology (or humanity) will be able to extend our lives almost indefinitely. But why do we need endless life if we use it only to consume more and more new products, regardless of any circumstances? - Vicky Somers comments on her project. "Continuing with all our might to strive for progress, one day we will find that we ourselves have become the very products that we collect."
Vicky Somers created three still lifes from human ashes that raise questions about the value of human life and consumer goods. According to the author, she used in her works traditional elements of still lifes of the 16th and 17th centuries: fruits, flowers and insects, which symbolize the meaninglessness of earthly existence, the fleetingness of life, the futility of pleasures and the inevitability of death.
This is how the author explains the symbolic meaning of her works. The honeycomb lying on the scales is a symbol of personal success, diligence and work. How much does something that one person has been working on all his life weighs in the end? Handheld vacuum cleaner and dung beetle: what some consider garbage is food and a living environment for others. Toaster and Birds: The toaster symbolizes cremation, and living and dead birds, respectively, represent life and death.
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