Firstly, i would just like to refer to the movie "Blade Runner" which Heartney mentions in the chapter. If you havent seen this movie you should! Its the perfect example of how nature and technology collide. PLUS Harrison Ford is in it and he is extremely sexy. NOW, onto the art side of things; as i was reading through the chapter, i stumbled upon Roxy Paine. Pains's work struck a cord with me, especially the work "Psilocybe Cubensis Field" 1997. Heartney suggests paine "brings machine-like precision to creating replicas of natural objects." This is completely evident in this art work as Paine created life size fields of poisionous mushrooms, he then places them against a stark white and generic gallery space. I feel this contrast makes the audience appreciate the object to a larger extent, as they can closely observe and note the beauty of the mushroom against the sparce white space of the gallery. So really Paine is enhancing the wonder and mysticism of nature through unnatural means. Yet a darker side is brought out, when we discover the mushrooms are poisionous, showing that the beauty can be decieving.
Paine's works are meant to suggest the dispute of humanities desire of control VS the unpredictability and numinous effect of nature. Inevitably Paine is trying to say that no matter how hard we try we can never control nature; it is completely out of our hands.
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