Category: Poetry

The Shaman’s Fish Song

November 17, 2015 By arne hendriks Off

The Shaman’s Fish Song was presented as a wall painting in the exhibition Human+ in CCCB in Barcelona. It celebrates the potential of the zebrafish model organism as a shaman to help the human species become smaller.

Japanese Miniatures: Tokonoma

July 26, 2013 By arne hendriks 0

Our cultural environment bombards us with signs that bigger is better. The very notion of shrinking creates such internal conflict that we are inclined to ignore its obvious benefits and condemn the whole idea to the realm of mad science. We lack a framework that…

Paper Pygmalion

March 15, 2011 By arne hendriks 0

There’s something awkwardly cute about the videoclip by The Mills Brothers in which a man sings about his desire to “own a paper doll that he can call his own”. The representation of human desire through an idol, a sculpture, or even a puppet is as old…