Animal Series by Pepe Calderin

During the beginning of my career as an artist, my pieces were based on a study of how to use recycled and other types of unthinkable material to originate complex constructions of what nowadays would be considered as modern buildings. The main purpose of this work is to exhibit an illustration of how unbelievably humans have substantially valued the materialistic world more than life itself. Not only does this work demonstrate the poor awareness and the influential emphasis we place in society, but his work also provides the history of electronics over the past decade. The entire series is constructed of hundreds of diverse types of recycled material, allowing the artist to provide the history of the fast progression in technology.

Following this path, it has come to me the opportunity of experimenting new materials as coaxial staples. This new inexpensive construction material is used to innovate an unusual tactic to draw pictures of animal species. A simple and possibly recycled material does not only manufacture each portrait but, behind the making of this series, it also transmits a powerful message for the people. The symbolism is that through every nail hammered into the plywood we are penetrating the skin of every single animal to denote all the suffering we have brought upon him or her instead of appreciating the natural surroundings.  

Throughout human history, we inadvertently have killed animals for wrong purposes such as consumption, garments, and even beautification's. As the Buddha says, “One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living things,” imparting that we as living beings are ought to care and protect animals. This series focuses on creating awareness on the mistreatment we have brought both on the animals and on mother earth.

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