Extended Specimen
Stainless, Aluminium, Glass
1600*1600*850 (mm)
These days, most of skeletal sample were mainly used for scientific and educational purposes.
Extended Specimen proposes a new method of preservation by reinterpreting skeletal structures and materials.
I reinterpreted the elephant’s skeleton as a table. This work takes the skeleton into practical and everyday territory, so this project expands the concept of conventional preservation where existing skeletal specimens are preserved or displayed as stuffed creatures.
Elephants have long been considered symbols of good luck, wealth, and longevity, and in this work, the skeleton with its symbolic meaning has been transformed. By converting naturally extinct organic bones into stainless steel, I extended the concept of physical preservation of the skeleton to symbolic, aesthetic, and functional dimensions.
“Should the skeleton only stay in the records of the past? Or could it have the potential to transform matter in the present and in the future to create new meanings?”
The starting point of this work is to think about what new role the skeleton, transformed by human touch,
could play on the boundary between life and death.