Schrödinger's Canary Consumer Event Horizon Anthropocene
Post-industrial humankind portrayed by a vacuum cleaner enshrouded by iron-sand housed in an 18th century-style cabinet.
Schrödinger's Canary is a contemporary tool that threatens to ingest everything. Its intended purpose was to clean after activity (or inactivity) in the modern world. Now it is a domestic black-hole that has the capacity to devour consumerism.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo-sapiens' disregard for warning signs. This tests our survival. In order to stimulate a precarious sense of satisfaction this vacuum has swallowed a miner's canary thus concealing the alarm system. Capitalism pushes us to harvest materials ad-finitum while we incautiously reject any indications of our human fallibility.
Shall we unplug the urge to commodify for the canary to be saved and the warnings heeded?
Or, do we continue to obfuscate our augury blinded by commercial artifice?
...is the canary alive?
Schrödinger's Canary is a contemporary tool that threatens to ingest everything. Its intended purpose was to clean after activity (or inactivity) in the modern world. Now it is a domestic black-hole that has the capacity to devour consumerism.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo-sapiens' disregard for warning signs. This tests our survival. In order to stimulate a precarious sense of satisfaction this vacuum has swallowed a miner's canary thus concealing the alarm system. Capitalism pushes us to harvest materials ad-finitum while we incautiously reject any indications of our human fallibility.
Shall we unplug the urge to commodify for the canary to be saved and the warnings heeded?
Or, do we continue to obfuscate our augury blinded by commercial artifice?
...is the canary alive?
Schrödinger's Canary - Vac, iron-sand, feather, wood, glass NZ$16,000 €9500
Anthropocene
*the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. "some geologists argue that the Anthropocene began with the Industrial Revolution" 
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