Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Bears in a Post Nuclear Era


Dusit Zoo begins as mind scarringly depressing and slowly progresses to "at least it's not the bears".
The Bears have gotten past the point of been simply sad and progressed into this catatonic state of intense sadness. I
t's like they have been fed funerals and babies tears all their life.
They lie there covering their eyes occasionally looking up to see if anybody has dropped any razor blades or hangman's ropes into the the enclosure.
That's another thing. I don't know much about these bears, but I'm pretty sure their natural habitat was not London after "The Blitz". Broken concrete and glass litters the ground and the "waterfall" consist of what seem to be a faulty tap.
It's cruel you might say.
I thought so also. Until I realised it was ART. Yes ART my old friends. It's Making a POINT.
You see the next "Exhibition" consisted of a World war 2 bomb shelter. Not an animal enclosure that looked like like a WW2 bomb shelter, but an actuall WW2 bomb shelter with a sad little Thai statue family inside. Waiting for the Big One.
In a Zoo?
So then it all made sense. Dusit Zoo is not a a ZOO at all, silly! It's a giant ART instillation with a profound Message.
Basically Dusit Zoo shows one possible future for our a our depraved race.
Animals have taken over the city centres and now live in the squalid remains of our shops, school and factories.
They are literally devouring our Culture while we live in tiny boxes under the ground.

It about the adaptability of animals and human fear.

You might not get it because it is so deep but It may be the most uplifting thing I have ever seen.
I came out of there like a giddy schoolgirl.
The animals of Dusit Zoo will one day take over the earth and for the time been there are a couple of hundred creatures having a worse time in Bangkok than I am.
Yes!!!

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