Hasta La Motion!

UK artist Diddo‘s latest commissioned project: Ecce Animal : a 12 x 18 x 22 cm skull of street sourced, compression molded Cocaine and Gelatin … challenging assumptions about human nature, specifically the tension between biology and society and how it defines our humanity.

“In order to prepare and analyze the purity of the accumulated ‘street’ Cocaine, I contacted pharmacists at a renowned laboratory.” Read more about the testing procedures and the lab results.

Once we were animals.
Like any other, we lived in an environment of fear and want.
Then, we became ‘human’ and aspired to be better.
We learned to control our environment but the fear stayed,
because we never learned to control ourselves.

It is frightening to look at the face of our animal side laid bare
by comfortable excess; the spoils of its aggression.

But what exactly is it about this image that is so confronting?
Is it this division in our idea of self?
Or is it a realization that though we have mastered the outside world,
we will always remain subservient to our inner selves.