The Confucius
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A machine that allows wild animals to trigger their own photographs.
Technical
Mechanical sculpture with 35mm camera.
2x photographic prints.
Background
This ongoing project Fauna Automata captures an element of Beijing that usually escapes most visitors to the city. The wooden structure was placed in shrubbery at a roadside verge in the far Northeast of the city, and recorded two photographs of a Hedgehog.
This machine includes a rattrap, which has been modified (for safety) so that it cannot move to an acute angle.
Open studio installation view.
