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COALESCE

Samantha Clark is a visual artist working with the Natural History Collections of Edinburgh University School of Biological Sciences

Sunday, 1 February 2009

Hatching


In Edinburgh University's old teaching collection of Systematic Zoology something is hatching. I think it might have something to do with Goethe but I'm not sure yet. He said 'Every act of looking turns into observation, every act of observation into the making of associations; thus it is evident that we theorize every time we look carefully at the world'. So there is no innocent eye.


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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’.
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