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Nature?
Marta de Menezes/P
Involves the interference with the developmental programme of butterflies in order to generate live butterflies with wing patterns never seen in nature. Although the patterns are artificially determined, they are made of normal live cells - examples of something simultaneously entirely natural, but not designed by nature. In Nature? the artist only modified the pattern of one wing of Bicyclus and Heliconius butterflies. Through this asymmetry the similarities and differences between the unmanipulated and manipulated, between the natural and the novel natural are emphasised. The changes are not at the genetic level, and the germline is left untouched. This form of art has a life span - the life span of a butterfly. It is a form of art that literally lives and dies. It is simultaneously art and life. Art and Biology.
Source: Sabine Starmayr
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