MeetMeat_HernanDiazAlonso2013_ynotworkshop

The indifference of the digital realm has lead to a proliferation of

apathy or disregard to consequence. With little repercussions to

the whole or to the remnants of the whole; a blob cut and reformed

is a new blob, not two; but a baby cut in two is no longer indi fferent

but a travesty. That inability for the digital realm to understand the

repercussions of such an act is what creates a point of corruption.

Slicing and cutting is a primal urge to search, tear and find meat;

finding the tender parts of a mass, separation of a physical object,

or a portion of a physical object, into two or more portions. In the

digital we are no longer forced to slice through all the layers to

reach center, center is a whole in itself, isolated from the surrounding

layers. The digital removes the brutality of the act, but allows us

to expand on its e ffects, blurring the aesthetics of brutality. Scarring,

healing, scabbing, is no longer associated with digital cutting,

it is no longer a way of seeing the act, it becomes an act of exuberance

ornamentation, removing the act from its aggression. Leonardo

DaVinci discovered that through drawing and was able to

convey ideas before unheard of, prioritizing certain cuts, levels and

layers of the mass, creating a new method of exposure and revealing.

This project strives to bring the indi fference of the digital brutality,

slicing to locally reveal, globally conceal, and break mass. Keeping

a sense of the whole together. Bringing attention to the brutal act

of non-form, adhering mass cutting, using the idea or memory of

brutality, in order to corrupt the whole reading of the mass.

meet meat

captured meat side

captured meat back

captured meat side

inside meat

outside meat

cutting board interior

inside cut meat

inside cut meat

inside cut meat

inside cut meat

facade of captured meat

angled captured meat

biopsy chunk

meat interior slice

meat interior slice

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