the birth of the human tail is a landscape
2024
11.8 * 13.8 * 11.8 inches
two goldfish, hydrophyte, plastic, tube, plexiglass, plastic, metal, mirrors, acrylic color, sand
Playing with relativism and miniature, the work presents a novel ecosystem. Two goldfish are free to navigate their surroundings: plastic in the form of a human female’s pelvis, an unsigned tail, an untouchable hydrophyte, and mirrors for small creatures.
Jiang made the tailbone based on her extra bottom vertebra, an innate symptom neither fatal nor normal. As she always dreamed about a society with prevalent human tails, she chose goldfish as the first species to inhabit with the tail from an external perspective.
