Schrödinger's Canary Consumer Event Horizon Anthropocene
Post-industrial humankind portrayed by a vacuum cleaner enshrouded in iron-sand, housed inside an 18th century-style cabinet. A ubiquitous appliance contained within a relic of the industrial revolution's naissance.
Schrödinger's Canary is a contemporary tool that threatens to ingest everything. Its intended purpose was to clean after activity (or inactivity) in a modern world.
An incarnate domestic black-hole with capacity to devour consumerism itself.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo-sapiens' disregard for warnings. This tests our survival. In order to stimulate precarious states of satisfaction this particular vacuum has sucked up the miner's canary thus concealing our alarm system.
Capitalism pushes us to harvest material 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 a modern world.
An incarnate domestic black-hole with capacity to devour consumerism itself.
The Anthropocene* is characterised by Homo-sapiens' disregard for warnings. This tests our survival. In order to stimulate precarious states of satisfaction this particular vacuum has sucked up the miner's canary thus concealing our alarm system.
Capitalism pushes us to harvest material 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
(complete work shown below 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" 
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