COALESCE: April 2009

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Polar Bear Cub

Today's find: an exquisite 3 day old polar bear cub in a jar.

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Survival of the cutest

The feather-footed jerboa wins the prize for the cutest specimen in the Natural History Collections

COALESCE

This project will explore the relationships between scientific and aesthetic responses to the objects in the Natural History Collection, as a site for the production of knowledge about the natural world.

A blindworm bleached and suspended in a spirit jar; a wax scale model of a fish brain on a turned ebony handle; a calculation of the mass in cubic miles of salt in the world’s oceans written in a careful copperplate hand on a glass lantern slide: these objects are now distanced from modern scientific approaches by perhaps a century, and now seem strangely poetic. Each specimen is a fragment of ‘the wild’ that became ‘science’ and is now ‘history’.

COALESCE

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Polar Bear Cub

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Floating bells of crystal

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Survival of the cutest

COALESCE

This project will explore the relationships between scientific and aesthetic responses to the objects in the Natural History Collection, as a site for the production of knowledge about the natural world.

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