The Seed

“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28) (NIV).

Description

We often speak of the human footprint, when discussing the impact of our species on this planet. But I sometimes muse that perhaps it is not our feet we should be focused upon....

This piece depicts mankind, contemplating his own toxic impact upon the planet.

The head of his penis is a bird skull (partridge) and in its mouth appears to be a worm. It is instead, a beautiful, but “toxic sperm” made from silver and pearl that houses a single drop of mercury.

His wonderful oversized testicles weigh in the balance a fragile beginning of a tiny wasp nest on one side, against his own beautiful sperm, formed from a black pearl and silver, on the other.

His hair is formed from so many tiny fish that died probably, from toxic algae bloom and washed up on our portion of his torsor shores. Their remains swim about his head, dreaming of life that might have been.

In the back, behind the branches that form his rib cage, are his lungs and heart, stomach and spleen, formed from driftwood and roots, along with a small liver made from an eroded stone that was found amidst the many little fish upon the beach.

As with so many of my pieces, lamb skull forms a portion of his torso, as this piece meditates on the devastation and cruelty that has been perpetuated by the practice of agriculture