Naive Defence Sculpture

This is the second in a series of experimental pieces using recycled paper pulp and recycled paper/card. My aims are to create artworks that are made almost entirely from recycled materials and to explore ideas around micro evolution in the natural world as nature's response to human pollution. By forming an array of spines, sharp points and thorn like structures as well as using the colours red, yellow, black and white I am exploring some of the ways nature defends itself agains predators. Animals often use aposematic colourations to warn of their poisonous or venomous nature and plants use spinescence, trichomes and thorns to deter predators and warn of danger. Yet can such naive natural defences be enough against the pollution and damage inflicted by humans? As more research becomes available, the human impact on the natural world is being seen in far deeper ways such as the microevolution of plants in response to changes in PH levels, heavy metal pollution and herbicides, not to mention the adaptations that occur from using GM crops and monoculture agriculture. I am asking if there will be adaptations in the natural world that will be less naive and more damaging? Is it possible for humans to cause micro evolutional changes that become deadly? This lightweight sculpture would be ideal displayed as desk art or on a shelf or plinth. It has a natural cork base that will protect any surface it stands on and it has been given several protective layers of varnish.

Sculpture:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:6.5 W x 12 H x 3 D in

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