Great Progenitor
By
Alexis Rago
2009
the artist
The making of objects and images to help grasp the big questions is something that has defined human activity for tens of thousands of years. Great Progenitor is a response to evolutionary biology in the idiom of sacred iconography; it is not a true likeness of anything in existence but a symbolic reification. It is to religion what science fiction is to science.
the artist
Alexis Rago
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