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Greg Lynn Form VS Dildo Arch-Studio
2005.09.23 18:52

I want to tell you more, but right now I'm not sure if I'm confusing Paine with another artist. There is an artist that devised a machine that 'reenacted' the human digestive system, which ultimately produced turds. I can't readily find any exact reference online right now (but I know it's in a magazine I have somewhere). This digestion machine looks a lot like the blob making machine of Paine, so maybe that's why I'm (possibly) confused.

Paine's aluminum tree and the specimen display cases of "second nature" have a strong reenactment quality. Plus the whole notion of "second nature" implies a reenactment (albeit with degrees of separation) of "first nature".

If I'm correct in thinking that Paine also did the digestion machine, then the notion of reenactment within his work is even more sound.

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