Artificial Insemination
This happened very spontaneously one summer when I was in Finland. I fished out a handful of tadpoles and their water from a rainwater pond, got a dinner plate from the cupboard, and assembled it all on top of the black t-shirt I was wearing at the time. My Artificial Insemination photographs deliberately scramble the ingredients of an iconic image— the moment that an egg is fertilized by a sperm—that I remember seeing as a child in the bookshelves in my father's office, a professor of Human Sexuality.
Artificial Insemination 1, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination 2, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination 3, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination 4, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
This is a moving image version of the scenario that appears in the Artificial Insemination photo series, which provides the added insight that rather than beelining to the center to “fertilize the egg,” the “sperm” tend to prefer evasively swimming around the edges of the plate.
Artificial Insemination, 1998, video loop.