The first pig head has been casted! the second is in the process of setting and drying in the mold as we speak. success!
Friday, December 5, 2008
We began the molding of the Pig Head a few days ago but didn't have any photos until now. This is the Pig Head as the molding plastic from Smooth-On dries. Now we just have to cast the heads in wax.
Uroboros Project is a collaborative effort between artists Rachel Lowing and Gaia. Spawned from a mutual interest in articulating the inexorably intertwined relationship between people and nature, we examine the act of consumption and its implications on contemporary life. The urban environment is an organism whose growth is dictated by the symbiotic relationship between the city and it's inhabitants. It is the ideology and laws of society manifest, yet simultaneously it obeys basic, natural properties of formation and development that is shared by all sentient creatures. By considering our connection and correspondence with the city, we come closer to understanding the purgatory between nature and culture that defines our internal struggle as human beings. Collaborate Late Latin collaboratus, past participle of collaborare to labor together, from Latin com- + laborare to labor — more at labor 1 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor: to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected
Uroboros is a circular symbold depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness, totality or infinity.
