Sumiko Shimada
Peripheral ARTeries
In Arizona, I saw a bird making a nest inside of a cactus. In San Francisco, it keeps the same temperature and weather whole year, while a neighboring city has hot summer. The same plants grow differently between Japan and the US, such as a Morning glory. I had believed that it was grass because I only had seen a green stem, but I found it was a tree in the US; the green stem became brown trunk. Actually, the biggest impact was that I started having a dog. First, I was surprised how the dog was smart. (At least, my dog has more intelligence than me!). I started considering about the food chain because I wanted to quit pesticide plants or put a mouse trap for my dog’s safeness. Now I release a lady bug on the plants to make it eats aphids. I also met many animal lovers and I notices animal protection minds are so wide-range depends on the person. Some people become a vegan because they think eating intelligence animal is crueler than plants because it can feel pain. Some people against a meaningless killing, people shouldn’t kill more than they need. Those experiences were very interesting and chance to think about human in nature.
Then I combine together to make a piece of art. Evolution is a short animation piece that depicts 4,600 million years history of the earth; I take photographs of each process of drawings and animated these. "
Sumiko Shimada
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