Migrations - Doug Aitken
Leigh showed us this work a while ago and it's probably the one that's had the biggest impact on me. It's really in sync with my ideas about the wild in contrast to the pristine controlled environment we live in. Before viewing the work I had the idea that an animal that I created for my stop-motion could go beyond the set I create for it and find itself beyond where it was intended to go. I find this work quite endearing because these animals, while they seem quite out of place, don't seem anxious or worried themselves to be in such environments. While this is kind of the opposite one would expect, I guess in the end it really does say we are like the animal at core. We would probably all prefer to live in a warm, safe nest out of the cold.. But at what point does it become too much? At what point did we become so detached from the outside world that though an animal can survive where we are, we most likely couldn't survive where an animal does?
