Analogue Animals

 
 

These sculptures were created as part of my residency at the Centre For Outer Space Studies.


L.F.A.K.

As the Lunga 6 crew surveyed the island, they came across a cave. Inside, I was able to excavate two complete sheep skeletons. Subsequent surveying of the island produced additional lamb bones, likely evidence of historical sheep farming on the island. I filled the Lamb First Aid Kit (L.F.A.K.) with cotton wool removed from the first aid kits that I used to build the Remote Care Cases.


Materials: Sheep skull recovered from Lunga, cotton wool, sewing basket, scrub brush


Analogue Stag

Despite the island of Lunga being uninhabited by humans (and thus an ideal site for the analogue space research mission), the crew found a significant non-human presence in the form of red deer that had swam over to Lunga from nearby islands. One of the crew members remarked that perhaps the deer might represent pieces of complex telemetry which simply resembled deer, and that they were designed to blend into the terraformed Martian

simulation. In response to the proposed idea of mechanized deer analogues, I collected discarded materials while on Lunga and created an analogue deer.


Materials: 1960s table, squash racket owned by Michael Collins (likely not the Apollo astronaut), vice clamp, piano parts, camera flash, skull hooker, spalted beechwood veneer, resin, tablecloth clamps, string

2022