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In recognition of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection“, the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design is exhibiting e uno plures.

Faculty member Greg Blonder, has designed and fabricated /e uno plures/. The work consists of six black and silver vignettes of increasing complexity. Sequentially illuminated by spotlights and constructed of wood, ceramic and a unique plastic film that bends when exposed to heat, the piece addresses the axiom of emergent structures arising from the reuse of simpler building blocks. Such adaptation and modification enables natural selection to bring complexity to life, without appealing to the guidance or intent of a “master watchmaker”.

/ e uno plures/- out of one, many

Each vignette is mounted on a tall plinth, and is set into motion by
absorbing the spotlight’s energy. Displayed near eye-level and intimatein scale, the moving light engages the viewer to playfully discover how each evolutionary phase recycles and extends the capabilities of its past. Given sufficient time (and life on earth is billions of years old) and given the pressures of natural selection to constantly adapt in order to survive- the sculpture helps viewers realize that complex environments can result from simple causes. It is this unifying simplicity that marks Darwin’s Law of evolution by natural selection as one of the seminal insights of mankind.

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from March 28, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Artist(s)

Greg Blonder

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