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MARIA LUX
Installation view Fabricated Fisher Price barn toy at the proportions of a modern hog confinement facility, 1000 plastic miniature hogs Fabricated Fisher Price barn toy at the proportions of a modern hog confinement facility, 1000 plastic miniature hogs Detail of miniature hogs made by the Ertyl Farm Toy company Detail of historical stereoscopes of Chicago stockyards and slaughterhouses, antique stereoscope View through antique stereoscope Stereoscopic 3D illustration of methods of carcass disposal for catastrophic hog mortality based on recommendations from an Extension publication. Stereoscopic 3D illustration of methods of carcass disposal for catastrophic hog mortality based on recommendations from an Extension publication. Stereoscopic 3D illustration of methods of carcass disposal for catastrophic hog mortality based on recommendations from an Extension publication. Stereoscopic 3D illustration of methods of carcass disposal for catastrophic hog mortality based on recommendations from an Extension publication. Schematic drawing of SYMBOL III, Pork Checkoff's Pork Value Program ideal market hog, colored pencil Schematic drawing of SYMBOL III, Pork Checkoff's Pork Value Program ideal market hog, colored pencil

Small Scale/Large Scale

2011

Contemporary hog production is vastly different from historical farming practices, not least because of a major shift in scale. This installation uses 3D stereoscopic images, models and dioramas, schematic drawings, and diagrams of mathematical formulas to connect tourism, the slaughterhouses of Chicago, suggested methods of handling "catastrophic mortality" in large hog populations, and Euclidean geometry.

Antique stereoscope with stereoscopic images of dioramas illustrating methods of hog carcass disposal in incidences of "catastrophic mortality", Fisher Price Viewmaster toy, fabricated Fisher Price barn, 1000 plastic miniature hogs, inkjet prints of vintage stereoscopic image cards showing Chicago slaughterhouse facilities, map of Chicago stockyards, colored pencil schematic drawing of today's ideal hog, diagrams of simple mathematical equations for determining area, density, weight, volume, wall labels

Photos: Michael Woody and Will Arnold (Fisher Price barn)


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