This project is based off a reoccurring nightmare I have been having for the past couple of years. My inability to make it is due to finances and the problem of gathering the material.
I walk into a dark room. It has the aura of musky oblivion, dusty and damp. In a corner stand stacks upon stacks of filthy cages, inside them are animals, crammed, some barely alive. Their food and water bowls are empty, licked clean. Fecal matter and urine are scattered everywhere.
I would like to turn this nightmare into an installation. Ideally I would build a small room preferably in a basement for the dampness. The viewer would enter a dark atmosphere and be confronted by a scene of five stacked cages. These cages have to be rusty, shit stained, completely incapable of holding living beings. Inside them will be taxidermies of dogs, cats, ferrets, parakeets, rats and a bearded dragon. The food bowls in the parakeet cages have to have the shells from the seed, tussled.
The feeling that I wish to convey is the overwhelming neglect as a confrontation takes place between the viewer and the glassy eyes of those dependent on you.
By Irina Makarova
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