Trapped Python
with 18K Gold Hook

(2019, fiberglass, 18 carat gold, 245 x 30 x 30 cm)

Based on research into the swiftlet bird's nest economy in Southeast Asia, predators by air and by ground were subject to fatal traps that protect the nests inside the cement birdhouses that cultivates them. The dangling egg lures the python upwards, subsequently swallowing the hook; unable to reverse back down.
Hung.
Stranded.
The 18 carat gold, the same type of gold used for common human jewelry, shimmers as it pierces out from the python's gut.

Research as part of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts (founder Ute Meta Bauer), Singapore.

Trapped Python with 18K Gold Hook

(2019, fiberglass, 18 carat gold, 245 x 30 x 30 cm)

Based on research into the swiftlet bird's nest economy in Southeast Asia, predators by air and by ground were subject to fatal traps that protect the nests inside the cement birdhouses that cultivates them. The dangling egg lures the python upwards, subsequently swallowing the hook; unable to reverse back down.
Hung.
Stranded.
The 18 carat gold, the same type of gold used for common human jewelry, shimmers as it pierces out from the python's gut.

Research as part of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts (founder Ute Meta Bauer), Singapore.

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