2022. 300 x 50 x 40 cm Mixed Media.

In Gallus, I explore our physical symbiotic relationship with chickens. I constructed chicken figurines, arranged as if dancing on a factory conveyer belt, oblivious to their own extinction, removed from the land. They are symbolic of the human race’s own demise. Devoid of feathers, heads and feet, they fit into each other like vertebrae, interlocked and connected, linking them together as the earth’s ecology is linked. They became us, as we are dancing headless towards our own extinction.

The massive head resembles a coin placed on a high plinth, almost out of reach, like our political and economic institutions, at the base mass-produced smaller chicken heads are piled up like coins – money as an artificial construct used to justify so many immoral acts, the Midas touch.