tribbles
-sculpture series-
Each Tribble is between 23"-29" wide by 27" tall by 4" deep and is made of laser cut steel and faux furrr. Their namesake comes from the famous Star Trek infestation of 1967 in which the Enterprise crew was left in a euphoric haze by these adorable creatures that reproduced at exponential rates and quickly over ran the ship.
When conceiving of this series I was looking for a glimmer of hope (and a little comic relief) against the many overwhelming existential threats facing humanity. While we humans may have advanced cognitive function that has enabled us to develop technology to inhabit nearly every continent and climate on the planet, split the atom, and leave our own atmosphere; we suffer from something called cognitive dissonance. So far this affliction has allowed us warm our home beyond many major tipping points, exploit the planet and our fellow earthlings to our own glutinous whims, and divide ourselves into arbitrary nation states and tribal factions that give us each the excuse to annihilate one another, further reaping havoc on our own(ly) life giving planet.
So yes, things are looking a little bleak. But after scouring the internet, lol, I've determined that there is one evolutionary advantage we have at this point that could yet be our salvation, maybe... Humans have the ability to culturally evolve almost instantaneously. That is, we can change our collective minds.
You may be skeptical, and I don't blame you one bit. Our current plutocracy would subdivide us down into smaller and smaller factions all believing our own individual truths substantiated by our personally tailored social media feeds until we are all fist fighting our neighbors in the street. Some of us are already there... Yet we do have the innate ability to see reason and let that influence how we move through the world, as long as those reasonable ideas can manage to sneak past our trauma protectors.
So this is where Tribbles come in. They are my humble prayer that we are all able to be inceptioned into an immediate course correction by allowing the exponential multiplication of the one thing that could still save us from ourselves, a good idea.