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Paradise Lost (2000 - 2003) |
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A long-term, folly of a project in which
a small flock of blue budgerigars was to be taught a key piece
of prose from Milton’s Paradise Lost. In the
selected prose Adam questions God on why he was made.
Blue budgerigars do not exist in the wild they have been created
by selective breeding to achieve their aesthetic colouring.
‘Blue’ has a particular place within the history
of Modern Art and whilst this project questions certain mythologies
surrounding that history it also alludes to contemporary issues
of debate about genetic manipulation and concepts of the 'natural'.
The first bird has been trained and further birds will be supplied
by Geoff Capes erstwhile World’s Strongest Man, now specialist
budgerigar breeder. |
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[IMAGE: detail of Paradise Lost in East
of Eden: art, nature, society, Spacex Gallery, Exeter] |
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