The Object is a piece of sculptural art created by Louise Weaver. The sculpture uses a Victorian taxidermy model of a peacock. The artist has crafted the bird famous for its extravagant feather display, a stripy decorative skin using techniques of crochet, applique and weaving. The artist describes her work a a development in her interest in distinction between artificial and natural. There are many discussions of debate for the secondary meaning of Weaver’s sculpture. The bird is a common example used by biologists of a model of Darwin’s theory of natural selection as the potent force in evolution. Survival of the fittest allows the best combinations of natural heritable characteristics to develop; in the case of the peacock the males develop a beautiful bouquet of feathers to attract the opposite sex during courtship; its feathers demand attention. Weavers coat emphasises the birds physique and links her sculpture to our human psychology and own courtship rituals. I recently visited the Royal academy hosting the exhibition: Awear: Art, Fashion, Idenity. The work in the exhibition is described: “clothing as a mechanism to communicate and reveal elements of our identity.” The Peacocks coat symbolises fashion. Fashion changes in its own evolutionary cycle but how has it developed to stimulate our biological rhythms. Many theorists such as Gabriel and lang write about fashion as as extention of our idenity, as time contnues are our fashion idenities getting more extravagant?
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