“To create something you musts destroy something”
With those words in mind i went on an exploration on what it means to destroy. i thought that the most viseble and emotional form of destuction for a human was to take a life. I decided that in order to do that I needed to experience it first hand to be truly able to have an opinion on it. so i went to kill a cow with my own hands.
The experience brought me many thoughts on what it means to take a life, how most processes have bin taken away from ouer eyes, it is perhaps one of the reasons behing the overwhelming enviormental problem that we have lost connegtion and respect for the things we consume. it has bin said that culture is in the craftmanship by looing toudge with processes and ouer craftmanship we loose a part of ouer self and ouer culture
I decided i had to become a craftsman and take reponsabilety for taking this cows life
What strook me was especialy the blood
Blood has throughout human history represented life.
In a postmodern world ouer economy and society, have become so complex that most procecces have bin hiden before ouer eyes the food that we consume is not excluted it only appears to us as packaged products in the shelves of supermarkets. ‘This makes the experience of eating a more abstract one and reduces the responsibility and respect we have fore the living things we consume.
i looked into how i could use this cow so I started looking to its core. its bones and blood and i broke that down into partcles. i deconstructed the animal down to its esentilas the esentials that we have in comon all mamals are constructed from collagen so i broke the blood and bones down to its partcles found out that an enzime taken from blood has the abillety to combine protain so i used the structural protain all mamals have in common collagen mixed it with the enzime tranzglutamin to form a hard material that could be reformed.
i decidet that i neaded to mak a glas and serve a a cokctail inn it that containd the blood from the animal to represent tand take reseponsabilety and reforme connection