Haseeb Ahmed | Fish Bone Chapel

This documents the process in making the Fish Bone Chapel.---Can mutation be generative of new forms instead of considered to be simply dangerous?---This project uses the mutations in Zebra Fish skeletons induced by toxins as a sculptural vocabulary to produce the Fish Bone Chapel.--- The architectural scale installation is based on Capucine Bone Chapels and traditional Christian Ossuaries found throughout Europe. originally they were a way to have a dialogue with the dead. Genomics research opens new stages between life and death. Zebra Fish are a popular model for genetic testing because they are technically not considered to be animals for the first 5 days of life.---The project was commissioned as a winner of the Designers and Artists for Genomics Award in collaboration with the Netherlands Toxico-Genomics Center. It will be exhibited at Naturalis Natural History Museum, Leiden (NL) on September 14, 2013.

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Chandelier

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Niche

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Frieze I & II

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Memento Mori- Video installation

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Spiraling column from Spinal Columns.

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Transience Triptych. 

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zebra fish skull and fin/sun/burst  and install pic.

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Spiraling Column made of a bunch of malformed spinal cords and vertebra among the sea shells

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8.9.13- Fin prints

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Random images from the studio.

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8.16.13- Tall Chandelier.

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8.22.13- first parts of tall chandelier.

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8.21.13- Fossilized forms resembling fish bone chapel chandelier forms. Not the other way around  ;)

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8.21.13- Naturalis visit.

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8.20.13- Printing the Chandelier

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8.19.13- mold making of the fish head.

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8.16.13- printing the tail.