Henry Moore : Warrior with Shield(1953)
In 2006, Turner Prize winning artist Simon Starling dunked a steel sculpture apparently based on the form of Britain’s most globally successful sculpture, Henry moore’s “Warrior with Shield” into Lake Ontario.
Henry Moore’s “Warrior with Shield” was propsed to be acquired within Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by a leading British art historian Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures and an adviser to the Toronto Museum. Blunt later confessed to be a spy worked for Soviet Union as a group of Cambridge-educated spies called the Cambridge Five.
Some thirty years later, when the massive Soviet Grain Sales that took place during the 80s, an agent in espionage also came in with the Soviet cargo ships, zebra mussels. Native to the Black Sea, this shielded warrior from the East fundamentally altered the “nature” Great Lakes and the North American waterways.
Simon Starling’s steel sculpture opened up its surface and played host to a colony of zebra mussels- "the sheels of which still valiantly cling to its rusted surface”
Simon Starling, ‘Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore)’ (2007)
Biosequestration or marine biogenic calcification is a natural process of turning CO2 into the calcified matter which mollusks, corals, crustaceans, phytoplankton, and other marine organism are capable of. (But we can only consume so much shellfish. (3)) Why don’t I take the ability to naturally turn gas(CO2) into a tangible matter(CaCO3) and set up a production line instead of the injection molding process? How about growing products we use by removing CO2 in the air.
