The Shapeshifter
Posted by Qais Fulton
The strange skeleton of this woefully fictional beast hangs in the Vancouver Art Gallery (whose acronym I couldn’t help but notice is unintentionally hilarious). The wires that hold it aloft seem more like chains than supports; this creature wants to move, to writhe in the quixotic ecstasy of its own existence, cutting a graceful swath through the night sky. Where it wants to move, I want to live; a world in which I can cast my gaze to the night sky to be treated with the ethereal dance of its kind.
Categories: Animals, Art, Sculpture, Supernatural
Posted at 3:58 pm on February 22, 2008
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Were there a just and loving god we would each be able to make such creatures out of there composite parts and bring them to life with secret arcane rights. Fuck this, I’m going on strike. Lets all gather outside the churches. That bastard gets no more praise until we can create life.
Comment by Hlaode — February 22, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
That was a wonderful piece. i got pictures of it myself, when it was here. It’s a whale skeleton made out of bits of plastic lawn chairs cut p and bolted together. Sadly, his work hasn’t hung in the art gallery for over a year.
Comment by Foxtongue — February 22, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
It’s the skeleton from a Navigator from Dune….
Comment by James — February 22, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
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Pingback by Shapeshifter, by Brian Jungen | Loris Z.com — February 23, 2008 @ 1:01 am
as i wrote on the vvwork site, the peice is called cetology, adn brian jungen is a fucking genius.
shapeshifter was the name of a first nations art show he was in, with keith monkman, fiona heavy sheild, a paul kane and some kick ass scrimshaw
Comment by anthony — March 2, 2008 @ 2:26 am