Johno Mellish A Baby and a Chicken, 2021 Chromogenic print
Edition 8 + 2AP
64 x 80 cm
25 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches

'I wanted to take a picture that looked quotidian or pedestrian, but also weird and eerie. In Eugene Marias’ novel, The Soul Of The Ape, he writes of how birds have instinctual memory and how humans start out as being instinctual but lose their instinct to what he calls causal memory in the first year or two of being alive.

The church in the background represents causal memory, the chicken instinctual memory, and the baby between these two types of memory. Memory is weird.'

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