Slithering Greed
Dig. Dig the Earth. Cut a mountain- dig a hole, Climb up the dark side of the Moon-dig up another hole; Dig and dig deeper as though everything below us belongs to us.
Humans through the ages at the expense of the environment, other humans- small and big have run in an unceasing war to obtain the precious metals safely tucked in the layers of Earth. Although progress and the greed for precious ores may look lucrative at first, this invasive human activity is a simple call for doomsday.
For this installation, ‘Slithering Greed’, the use of copper is multitudinal. Firstly its luster acts as a visual metaphor for how the shine of stones and metals in earth’s surface attracts humans. Secondly, its conductive property of copper adds an metaphorical aspect to the installation, where it denies being touched or controlled by the external environment as it can harm them in return. Furthermore the malleability of copper wires allowed me to weave a flowy structure which is boundless and adds movement, just like the greed of humans and their willingness to keep going and digging.
