![Installation view](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/877420d5674e32c4132697f68bee5adf40f150b02b68e99531b0beafb848ca0c/01_predator_project.jpg)
![Detail of museum signage comparing the vision of predatory and prey animals, pair of stereoscopic viewers with miniature scenes of animals that humans commonly consume.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d48dcbd51eb81e2ff9baf6491edad7a754702f1d29d986dc3446d04d9b7409fb/02_predator_project.jpg)
![Stereoscopic photograph of beef cattle (animal commonly consumed by humans), inkjet prints, stereoscopic viewer](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7752844043e673e641a076e848da0a12b81d3e616485c389ea207e2893101261/03_predator_project.jpg)
!["Les Combat des Predateurs (Homage to Delacroix)" "Men are tigers and wolves pitted against one another." Eugene Delacroix, French 1798-1863](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ee5b4d902a3074836dcb24d97bd1af717ad1f490c08bb8935b4c0d75ae3d299/04_predator_project.jpg)
![Detail of "Les Combat des Predateurs," Oil on paper](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0491371c368932ed81bbf96ec3b891b5e2b18de841c9076156efe36c13be442/05_predator_project.jpg)
![Replicas of WWII stereo 3D surveillance photos](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/580a3570a0887916f3a8b4fb59f42e78f1f7385a1ea2985af2596f85ed2199d2/06_predator_project.jpg)
![Monoprint, photograph of the U.S military's Predator drone](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0c6e5dcd84d319eee1cc0ee92552db0c883bcf922776c07603e7937b9801461/07_predator_project.jpg)
![Oil on paper, monoprints of images from Operation Crossbow, the mission against German long-range weapons systems that utilized stereoscopic images to detect missiles](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/474b155ea7acf0a3c59bd7ed4c5f48440a1a3462136f06ecadb46c4510551c37/08_predator_project.jpg)
!["Man the Hunted" Hart, Sussman, 2005, diorama illustrating Hart and Sussman's argument that the human species was shaped not by being an apex predator, but instead by being prey.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/727e2f0b6346837e4a9ac59bc0a98601482da467862d1fbc63078eb4b34c56ea/09_predator_project.jpg)
![Wall text.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33056a207f743aa51fe11a5f76750a897c7c19b6b6854aaafcda0651422ba0fc/10_predator_project.jpg)
Predator Project
2012This installation considers the implications of labeling humans as apex predators within a conflict-based view of "nature." It aligns 3D vision/depth perception as a trait of predatory animals with historical use of 3D surveillance in war, overlaid with recurring animal metaphors and symbols, and culminates in the presentation of alternative, provocative views of a more peace-driven ecology.
Laser-cut text, inkjet prints of stereoscopic photographs depicting animals commonly consumed by humans, stereoscopic 3D viewers, oil on paper, monoprint, reproductions from original WWII aerial reconnaissance photos (in a private collection, courtesy of David Eisenman), diorama, wall labels, excerpted text on panel
Photos: Will Arnold