Circulating in emails today the creepy photograph of a human/dog hybrid sculpture.

The sculpture was sculpted by Sam Jinks and is featured in Patricia Piccinini website.

The human dog hybrid sculpture is entitled “The young family” and is part of a bigger collection “We are family” and depicts a mother human-dog patiently waiting for her pups to finish suckling.

Looking more human than dog, the hybrids are hairless and the only thing that makes it look dog-like are the it’s muzzle and ear shape.

According to the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia: “Piccinini has an ambivalent attitude towards technology and she uses her artistic practice as a forum for discussion about how technology impacts upon life. She is keenly interested in how contemporary ideas of nature, the natural and the artificial are changing our society. Specific works have addressed concerns about biotechnology, such as gene therapy and ongoing research to map the human genome… she is also fascinated by the mechanisms of consumer culture.”

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