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Installation with specimen jars, chandelier, I.V. bags, moss  108″ x 48″ x 30″

Appropriating scientific and museum approaches to collecting, classifying and displaying objects and animals, The Permanent Collection evokes an elaborate 19th Century gathering of natural philosophers in a way that calls attention to and questions our tenuous relationship with the natural world and the natural world’s tenuous relationship with humans.

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