Karl F. Stewart Fish RED The images are from the video of the same name, Fish RED HERE, which draws attention to the use of Simulated Nature in today's world. Specifically the video addresses the concept that contemporary society has relegated Nature to second-class status and has substituted it with plastic. The images are of fish in a shallow fountain located outside a major corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. Aesthetically the fountain harmonizes well with the building. It is a motif architects use with success in many localities in urban areas. The title Fish RED points to the design function of the fish. The theme revolving around the contrast of decorative nature to Nature as the original source of life is a concept touched on before in other videos : San Francisco : The unearthly beauty of simulated nature in contemporary architecture, Simulated Nature and The Trilogy of Noise, Fish Pool and Transgenesis. These works are glances at the idea Nature has been supplanted by aesthetically ethereal manufactured realities which lack primordial essence.
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