Luke Eatherton
Often, we are told to see certain things in binary. Instead of embracing the freedom of the unknown, the grey areas and the change we turn to the rigidity of convention and categorisation to provide a false sense of security.
Growing up in an all-boys school I was taught to conform and repress. This would provide me safety from humiliation or attack. This project is a method of healing and protest. It serves to inject elasticity into the rigid columns of the gender binary and to enable the destabilization of a strict singular identity instead allowing me to embrace the form of textures and plant life.
Through 3D scanning and printing, digital manipulation, 2D texture scans and microphotography explorations of the human and plant world intertwine. In doing so we ourselves become more interconnected and fluid resulting in change being welcomed instead of resisted.
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