Schrödinger's Canary Consumer Event Horizon* Anthropocene*
Post-industrial humankind portrayed here by a vacuum cleaner enshrouded in iron-sand and housed inside an 18th century-style cabinet. A ubiquitous device contained within a case that mimics furniture from the industrial revolution.
Domestic black-hole incarnate, Schrödinger's Canary is a contemporary gadget that threatens to ingest absolutely everything. Even available door-to-door, its intended purpose was to clean after activity (or inactivity) in a modern world. The appliance mirrors man's voracity to accumulate, to grasp and exploit.
Capitalism drives us to harvest material ad-finitum while we incautiously reject any indication of our human fallibility. Our collective and insatiable greed swallows the very earth beneath our feet, consumerism off the leash.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo sapiens' disregard for warnings. This tests our survival.
In order to stimulate precarious states of satisfaction the vacuum has sucked up the miner's canary thus concealing our alarm system.
Shall we unplug the urge to commodify for our canary to be saved and the warnings heeded?
Or, do we continue to obfuscate our augury blinded by commercial artifice?
...is the canary alive?
Domestic black-hole incarnate, Schrödinger's Canary is a contemporary gadget that threatens to ingest absolutely everything. Even available door-to-door, its intended purpose was to clean after activity (or inactivity) in a modern world. The appliance mirrors man's voracity to accumulate, to grasp and exploit.
Capitalism drives us to harvest material ad-finitum while we incautiously reject any indication of our human fallibility. Our collective and insatiable greed swallows the very earth beneath our feet, consumerism off the leash.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo sapiens' disregard for warnings. This tests our survival.
In order to stimulate precarious states of satisfaction the vacuum has sucked up the miner's canary thus concealing our alarm system.
Shall we unplug the urge to commodify for our 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 €10,000
(complete work with signage and plume)
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" Event horizon *a point of no return. 
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