Totem-Lobo #1
2021
Totem-Lobo #1
Metal, bamboo, plants, electronics. 1.6x2.5x2m.
The sculpture is a generative structural portrait of the iberian wolf in portuguese territory that represents the delicate condition of populational decline until its current near extinction status. Gifted with an internal structure of metal to give solidity, the metal of the sculpture is enveloped in bamboo. The bamboos are punctually coated with biological and electronic materials, like moss, plants and pieces of circuitry.
It is foreseeable that throughout time the biologic material evolves, the bamboos degrade facing climate weather, possible allowing views of pieces of metal, the plants growing or drying, thus originating a generative sculpture with dynamics of slow motion camera dilated in time, alluding to an evolving portrait of the evolution of the portuguese lupine population.
This series of public art sculptures originated in the 3D printed series Wolf-Totems (2017). The first of large dimensions, Totem-Lobo #1, was installed at Iberian Wolf Recovery Center (CRLI) during October 2021.
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