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medium | dice, Found objects: Porcelain, glass vials, letters, needles, old wood parts, paint, plant pods, plastic |
Katharine Philip: Infertility Totem
This work displays the confluence of technology, medicine and humans and our continuing desire to control our fate.
My current junk sculptures evolved from five rounds of IVF infertility work ups. I saved all of the syringes and vials from these work-ups and have now incorporated them with broken doll parts and technology from other eras.
I incorporated dice in the works because no matter how much progress infertility medicine has been made, there is still a large amount of random chance involved. Will it work, will it not work, will you give birth to a girl, or a boy?
I made some of the vials blue; some of the vials pink and in some of the vials the colors are mixed together are to represent the colorful scale of sexual orientation.
Technology moves so quickly it is hard for humans to keep up with emotionally, although we are intensely grateful for the opportunities it creates.
In technology, what appears modern to us today, very quickly becomes stale and old looking at an ever-increasing pace.
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