Playground
Zoo
Tools: Blender
The thematic concept explores how the city impact and restraint our mind and behaviour towards nature (including animals) under the context of the biological nature of the human species, human were biologically impacted by the city, and our body conditions are still in the stone age, but we moved from a vast land hunting to concrete boxes with screen instantly, it caused a lot of mental and health issues, criminal behaviours, these issues also happening in animals of the zoo. Another important thing is we don’t have to worry about food, it seems like losing a goal of life in the stone age, and this type of struggle for survival has to be replaced by a “stimulus struggle” (Morris, 2007), which refer to reputation, achievement, entertainment, drug, video game, sports, matches, and various stimulative things. Similarly, pets and zoo animals need stimulus struggle, because they also have enough food, thus, they are not hungry for food, they are hungry for natural instinctive actions, such as hunting and killing, the ball we throw for the dog to chase is not a toy, functionally it becomes a “prey” or artificial stimulative tool, animals are reflections of our way of life, we offering them artificial stimulative tools and artificial foods, with concrete boxes and cages that lack of season and nature, sometimes simulating natural environment for them, but so do we, we eat artificial food and continuously create stimulative tools and things for ourselves, simulating natural or green spaces in offices, balconies, streets, and rooftop gardens and we also live in concrete boxes, and the whole city is just like a big human zoo.
Playground Zoo is an illusory world that reveals how the anthropocentric human mindset and the living spaces, and stuffs we created shaped each other in a biological aspect. this metaphorical world is based on an insight of animal situations under the artificial modern circumstance to reflect humans as manipulators and engagers of our own creations, at the same time suffering from our own hands, we are trapped in this illusory world we created and chase various stimulus endlessly. Desmond Morris’s theory of analyzing human activities in the city from a biological way exposed a lot of modernity issues we experienced, presuming you visit a big zoo but objects to be visited are humans as species.
Bibliography
Morris, Desmond. The Human Zoo. London, Vintage Books, 2007.
Playground Zoo is an illusory world that reveals how the anthropocentric human mindset and the living spaces, and stuffs we created shaped each other in a biological aspect. this metaphorical world is based on an insight of animal situations under the artificial modern circumstance to reflect humans as manipulators and engagers of our own creations, at the same time suffering from our own hands, we are trapped in this illusory world we created and chase various stimulus endlessly. Desmond Morris’s theory of analyzing human activities in the city from a biological way exposed a lot of modernity issues we experienced, presuming you visit a big zoo but objects to be visited are humans as species.
Bibliography
Morris, Desmond. The Human Zoo. London, Vintage Books, 2007.
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