Sweet price
Human activity is seriously affecting the animal habitat, causing hundreds of wild animals to be endangered. This a piece of work that provokes thought, discussion or action, about animal extinction, especially animals that have been eaten to extinction by humans.
Material
Maltose
Bamboo skewers
Year
2023
Type of Work
Research
Graphic Design
Interaction Design
Performance
Personal Work
I chose six animals that went extinct because of humans eating them in large quantities: the Caribbean Monk Seal, the Great auk, the Quagga, the Passenger Pigeon, Steller's Sea Cow and the Rhinoceros Sinensis.
Nowadays we can only see Sugar paintings at some Chinese festival fairs and it is mostly older people who carry on the Chinese cultural heritage.
Showing extinct animals with a rare intangible cultural heritage gives a double expression of extinction and obsolescence.
