The New Organ

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The New Organ

Species that are biologically closer to humans are considered to be more intelligent, e.g., we always imagine intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms with anthropomorphic features, although they might have different perceptions and a totally different scale.

Limited by our perceptions and our human-centred concepts we cannot think about plants as conscious beings or persons, despite the fact that they possess incredible capabilities like hearing, smelling, moving or reading our minds.

One day we might be able to modify our bodies and to create new senses in order to understand non-human entities like plants, animals or extraterrestrials and to question the belief of human supremacy.

This artwork visualizes a tree trunk attacked by an imaginary disease that makes it grow a new organ. With the new organ the tree would be capable of sharing its thoughts and feelings with humans.

For this hybrid object I have combined a fallen tree destroyed by the typhoon Mangkhut with a 3D printed attachment. This way, I have brought the tree back to life at least in an imaginary way.

The organ was created by 3D scanning and sculpting a bitter melon. By using various 3D editing softwares I have made the attachment perfectly fit to the shape of the trunk (which I have also scanned previously).