Author Archives: Amanda Morgan

Abstract: Domesticity, traditionally and historically, and as described in common terms, is the fondness one has for running a home. Feminism often casts the term in a negative light in order to empower women toward equality, but feminism also provides … Continue reading →

doilies beauty and horror comfort and discomfort combine scientific images and materials with more domestic or familiar ones triggering a double take in which the viewer re-evaluates their initial perceptions http://www.laurasplan.com/ “immediately appealing and repellent” *kinetics of the unseen: all … Continue reading →

Eduardo Kac: splicing genes, bio art, “creating a subject”; “creation of a chimerical animal that does not exist in nature” http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html Laura Splan: doilies; beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort; combine scientific images and materials with more domestic or familiar … Continue reading →