I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual. Patricia Piccinini More Quotes by Patricia Piccinini More Quotes From Patricia Piccinini I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature. Patricia Piccinini differences nature thinking My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural. Patricia Piccinini body practice people The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it. Patricia Piccinini able people ideas Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. Patricia Piccinini use world art How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create. Patricia Piccinini technology responsibility mean Artists make worlds for people to walk through. Patricia Piccinini artist people world I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with. Patricia Piccinini thoughts-and-emotions mediums emotion I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production. Patricia Piccinini sculpture drawing different Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology. Patricia Piccinini mythology technology practice I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations. Patricia Piccinini everyday reality world The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people? Patricia Piccinini real animal zoos I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things. Patricia Piccinini life-struggle struggle joy I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable. Patricia Piccinini humour messages way I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand. Patricia Piccinini scare cute people I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with. Patricia Piccinini irony sometimes people I would say my work is anti-ironic. Patricia Piccinini ironic In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals. Patricia Piccinini found-objects hair animal Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do. Patricia Piccinini drawing play ideas I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil. Patricia Piccinini dark heart thinking I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first. Patricia Piccinini want ideas firsts
