Due to rising steel prices and bullet production, these works are higher in a value not based on their subject, but their body. Their exploitable characteristics runs true for many organic forms, that to be alive is to be exploited.
These animal’s birthplaces become rationales for blame as those inside higher systems dismiss violence as karma. Constant exploitation has endless motion in which these scrap-yard animals embody. Even stood still, they exist as a simulacrum of organisms incapable of decay beyond rust. Where regular bodies are posthumously honoured through returning minerals to the soil, the steel animals are not granted the rest of death nor the novelty of choice.
By decontextualising metal fabrication as an industrial process, these works strive to reject conformity towards the human approach to domination, instead engaging with emotional freedom and the strive to eradicate the self-making, self-destructive ‘planet CEO’.
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Farnham 
Lijia Ye | Fine Art
