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Failures Shrine

By  Peter Hanmer 2013 - 2014

George Skipper

Medium: Various Animal bones, slate, fools gold, soil and other mixed media This piece examines unfettered capitalism, as the philosopher Slavoj Zizek says the expansion of capital is like a ‘strange perverted duty’ anything can be sacrificed ‘up to our lives up to nature’.

George Skipper

George Skipper

George Skipper

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Enlightenment?

Plato's Lair

Innocence

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