Damien Hirst's Anatomical Man, Hymn

I'm posting a few things in response to today's discussion of possible project materials and topics with regard to the Nature and Artifice project. This work is made of bronze, up-scaled from a small plastic toy model. The artist, Damien Hirst had to agree to donate money to charities specified by the toy company that makes the item, in order to avoid a copyright lawsuit. The second image is by the artist Karen Rudd. In her words,

“My art has focused on tree stumps and, most often, recreating the form from reclaimed corrugated cardboard boxes. I am not only reconstructing the organic form from its original material, but drawing connections between past and present by creating a historical subject in a ubiquitous and contemporary material. These sculptures, like much of my work, is a commentary on consumerism and natural resource use."