Wire Lungs

In response to Freud's Death Drive theory, this piece expresses the fragility of life. The sociological theory of animate life's task to return back to inanimate chemistry.

 

 

Soldered wire represents the anatomy of life-size lungs, encased within a Perspex box to keep the viewer out yet capture their attention in. I have showcased the fragile significance of the lungs biological aioli structure, in an archival order similar to museum relics. 

 

 

The Perspex’s transparency reflects a range of perspectives of the wire lungs and enables light to emphasise the delicate 3D drawing like structure through its casted shadows.