J. J. L'Heureux
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J. J. L’Heureux: Bags of Bones – Statement
The ‘BONE MEAL’ bag was the final resting place in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries for the last parts of whales after the principle bulk of the animal was rendered into oil that was shipped off in barrels to the cities of the world. Bone meal removed the final evidence of the enormous quantity of mammals and birds harvested in the Southern Ocean.
Petroleum is the contemporary replacement for animal oil in the past 100 years. Our culture manufactures from oil the bones (plastics), fertilizers and “furs” (clothing) that we build, feed and clothe contemporary culture with. I feel a deep warning that we may be creating a “dead world” if we do not make concessions to the consequences of what we are doing. The ‘Bags of Bones’ becomes a symbolic casket of our culture if we do not find ways to moderate our stripping of the earth indiscriminately.