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Nino Basset

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I present to you the Başak, one of the many creatures of my Bestiarium Project!

Ideally im thinking on making the entire thing into a book, with the first tome being focused on a desertic environment. Its been fun using some of the knowledge from my biology studies ( tho i did marine bio, so not completely applicable haha)

This little creature is meant to fill the niche of a fossorial mustelid, like a mongoose.

Other critters:

Kandze

The DIORAMAS catalogue arrived! I’m so pleased with the layout.  It was a pleasure writing this text in conversation with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster after finishing our diorama (Mangrovama) at Centre Pompidou-Metz curated by Emma Lavigne (2017). Thanks to Flammarion Editions and the folks at Palais de Tokyo for the opportunity.

Over the years, Dominique and I have made these artworks in various conditions, collecting resources in foreign places which can be challenging.

Through it all, I cherish our friendship and talks about books, film, art, science and many other things, all while surrounded by our own psychology of TIME. 

”Here, the real and non-real elements together in our dioramas aid in a deeper sense of dreaming, and these dreams could be our most important guides to another new reality.” 

final pictures of Mangrovama here: http://joibittle.tumblr.com/post/158895027354/mangrovama-2017-dominique-gonzalez-foerster-and