"Read my lips" Da Ding, Vienna, Austria 2009

Digital manipulation, mixed media. Braille version unavailable for digits.

Antique Philippine buri hat

Buri hat, Bulusan volcano Sorsogon circa1970s. Buri is a very versatile natural fibre like abaca, hemp, nito , palapa, rattan, nipa, anahaw, sawali, Cogon and many others. Now its various oil based polymer strings otherwise known as plastic. Imagine what a beautiful world it was before without plastic trash. If one would make something it would ideally be both made to last and ultimately biodegradable. I doubt if there are hats that would remain in a thousand years but that's a dunce cap. :)

The Serpent and the upsidedown nanometer rainbow by Wolf Grossstiener, Vienna Austria

The far- fetched connection in this lunar year between bioengineered artistry, bioprospecting, a future display for next generation gadgets, a tribute to a deceased painter, harvesting amino protiens, and reverse zombinol for the future flu. These islands apparently were already producing natural penicillin before, and during the worldwide outbreak of Spanish influenza. This was before the development of synthetic antibiotics that have in turn produced resistant strains in microbes and viruses. Back to the garden as Crosby, Stills and Nash convey..