elephantine in the

anthropocene

Media: handmade and recycled paper, screenprint ink, india ink, paint, yarn, thread, found objects

2018

This solo exhibition focused on the spatiotemporal chronology of human-elephant relationships in Asia and Africa. This exhibit re-used the life-sized elephants made for the From Bangkok to Boone exhibit that were made from mono-printed paper, stuffed with recycled documents, and sewn together. The floor of the gallery was covered in mono-printed paper ivory tusks with hand-written histories of elephant hunting from ethnographic and archival documents. Two alcoves in the galleries contained past and contemporary mono-printed weapons used to capture and hunt wild elephants. The walls of the gallery were painted orange and featured a timeline of human-elephant relationships across Asian and African countries, as well as maps of human-elephant conflict zones and conservation projects.

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