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As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
Patricia Piccinini
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Patricia Piccinini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.
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The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?
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