Lata Voladora, 2021
Piuter, plexiglass, black beans, acrylic paint
30 x 20 x 20 cm / 11.8 x 7.8 x 7.8 in
The contrast between the primordial appearance of such a being and the ultra-sophisticated device it pilots appeals to me. It prompts the question of just why there should be such overt design inconsistency between the form of the being and its craft? The two are so unlike that they are impossible to reconcile. Its as if I were asked to believe that the pea soup, or refried beans, that inhabit a tin can designed that housing for itself, and that this shell somehow represents its “psychology.” On the symbolic level, the two forms simply can not have similar meaning.
On the Aesthetics of Ufology (excerpted from an interview with M.A. Greenstein), 1997
by Mike Kelley
